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Author takluyver
Recipients barry, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, eric.smith, eric.snow, takluyver
Date 2018-06-22.20:53:38
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I'm generally in favour of getting rid of .pth files. But I did accept a PR adding support for them in Flit to act as a substitute for symlinks on Windows, to achieve something like a 'development install'. I'm not sure what the alternative is if they go away.
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