docs: recommend installation via pip -e #693
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| cd synthtool | ||
| export PYTHONPATH=`pwd` | ||
| python3 -m pip install -e . |
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Earlier versions of this file had the exact same command, but the command failed for Justin Beckwith.
So line 19 looks good, but line 23 doesn't work for all users.
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@JustinBeckwith Do you remember how this failed for you?
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Oh gosh, this was a while ago now, and I can't remember what was failing. What I do remember is that when installing directly from the repository, synthtool --version became practically useless. I was struggling to get the right version of synthtool on my path, and doing a --version would always tell me the same version regardless of which commit I had installed against.
I'd like to arrive at one of two places here. Either:
- We update
synthtool --versionto include the sha at which it's running alongside the current version or - We arrive at a place where we're consistently releasing every time after updates are made
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Actually, Justin's difficulty was running autosynth, not synthtool, so I'm ok with this change. |
Closes #691