Does pants support* editable wheels https://peps.python.org/pep-0662/? If I understand the PEP correctly this would allow me to perform an editable install from a wheel. Presumably this would mean if I

./pants package ::

to generate some wheels that I could then install into a

venv

in editable mode. This is useful to me as someone trying to incrementally adopt pants in a project while still supporting (development) workflows that depend on venvs, for example the python testing extension in vs code. My current work around is to include a

.env

that updates my

PYTHONPATH

so vs code can discover tests as we have multiple top level projects in this repository but this is a hack. Sorry if the question doesn't make sense, I'm still trying to learn more about python packaging and don't have a full grasp of what build backend / frontends are.

Can you accomplish the same thing without building the wheel but just installing the package in editable mode?

pip install -e

I was hoping to use pants to generate things like the

setup.py

rather than write them by hand and I'm not sure if there's a way to easily put those back into the directory containing the

python_distribution

target. If so I could

pip install -e

those