Suggestion: add editable install option in the Makefile

[fernandovmacedo]

I have been testing your template and I loved it. Very simple, very nice. One common workflow that I use for developing python packages is to install a package in editable mode (PEP 660). This workflow can be easily encoded in the Makefile adding these two lines:

editable:
        uv tool install --editable .

The command name could be different. Examples: editable-install, install-editable. What do you think about it? I can make a PR if you want to incorporate this in the project.

[jlevy]

Thanks I'm glad you find it useful! Yeah I think this is a good idea. I'd like to see more common workflows in the make file and development.md file.

But I'm not sure about the name or whether there should also be a tool install task that's not editable, too.

I've also been thinking about what other "editable" workflows there are, for context. For example, I find I manually edit my pyproject file to change some sources to editable sometimes (if I also am developing on the deps).

Do you or others find you also use uv pip install -e?

[fernandovmacedo]

My first try was uv pip install -e .. From what I could grasp from the uv documentation, uv tool install --editable . does the same thing, but in a more idiomatic uv way. Probably there is some nuance that I am missing here.