Documentation. What type of editable installs hatch supports?

[h-mayorquin]

Coming from here:
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-660-support-and-ides/13878

It seems that static analysis tools do not support editable install mechanisms that work with import hooks.

For packages that were built with setuptools, the clasical behavior that works well with static analysis tools can be enabled by doing:

pip install -e . --config-settings editable_mode=compat

I am consdering changing from setuptools to hatch for some projects but it would be nice to see in the documentation if hatch editable mode will work with static analysis tools. The only reference in the documentation to editable mode I could find does not seem to clarify much.

In short, what type of mechanism does hatch uses to provide editable installs? do they work with static analysis tools? Could this be added to the documentation?

[ofek]

the mode you want is the default:

• https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/config/build/#dev-mode
• https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/why/#build-backend

[h-mayorquin]

Thanks a bunch for your quick response. It is already on the documentation then so this is both answered and solved.