Question about dev-mode in environments

[Midnighter]

I find that the documentation for dev-mode lacks some detail. It currently states:

By default, environments will always reflect the current state of your project on disk.

I suppose that means that my project by default will be installed in editable mode (why invent a new term with dev-mode?) in the defined environment. It is unclear what happens in the opposite case.

Set dev-mode to false to disable this behavior

Does that mean the project will be installed only upon creation of the environment? Every time I run a command? I would really appreciate some more words on this.

For context, I am currently migrating a project from tox to hatch environments. It has always been important to me to test my package as it is installed (in case I forgot to include data files or similar). Therefore, I don't want it installed in editable mode, but, of course, I always want to test the most up-to-date version.

[ofek]

• Different terminology because it's possible to use arbitrary types of environments like Docker and without a Python package necessarily but still want the ability to use a snapshot of your branch or constantly updated state
• Correct, disabling that behavior would install the project only upon creation
• There is no option to reinstall each time you run a command or enter a shell, feel free to open a feature request