Dear Alan,
On 2023-08-29, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> On 8/29/2023 5:01 PM, Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:
>> On 2023-08-29, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
>>> Latest docutils from Subversion repository (vis svn update).
>>> Installed with
>>> python312 setup.py install
>>> Subsequent message from pip:
>>> DEPRECATION: Loading egg at c:\program files\python312\lib\site-packages\docutils-0.21b0.dev0-py3.12.egg is deprecated. pip 23.3 will enforce this behaviour
>>> change. A possible replacement is to use pip for package installation.
>>> I searched but did not find an answer to the question:
>>> what does this mean, and how to address it?
> On 8/29/2023 5:01 PM, Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:
>> Latest tips at
>> https://docutils.sourceforge.io/README.html#installation
> Sure, but to install the current code on Subversion,
> I cannot use pip. Right??
Actually, no. The linked documentation tells you:
* To install a `development version`_ *from source*:
1. Open a shell
2. Go to the directory containing the file ``setup.py``.
3. Install the package with **one** of the following commands::
pip install -e . # editable install
pip install . # regular install
python setup.py # regular install with setuptools
and ``pip install --help`` explains what an "editable install" is:
-e, --editable <path/url> Install a project in editable mode (i.e.
setuptools "develop mode") from a local project
path or a VCS url.
> I suspect (??) this serves as an alert to the
> docutils project that it must change how it
> uses setuptools before pip 23.3 is released.
Thank you for the pointer. The Docutils project distributes "wheels"
instead of "eggs" since 2015¹, so we should be safe for now.
We actually plan to replace "setup.py" in one of the next releases
https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/186/
Thanks,
Günter
¹Hence my question where you got the egg from.
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