Change .egg-info Directory With Pip Install --editable

Is there a way to modify the location of the .egg-info directory that is generated upon: pip install --editable . I'm asking because I store my source code on (locally synchronized

Solution 1:

You can achieve this by adding the egg_base option to setup.cfg:

[egg_info]egg_base = relative/path/to/egg_info_folder

I have used this successfully in pip 19.3.1.

In my environment, the actual files that this altered are:

• /anaconda/envs/my_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/easy-install.pth
• /anaconda/envs/my_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/package_name.egg-link

Note, pip install raises an error if the egg_base base is not a relative path. But directly altering the files appears to work:

/anaconda/envs/my_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/easy-install.pth:

/path/to/repository/folder

/anaconda/envs/my_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/package_name.egg-link:

/path/to/egg_info/folder
/path/to/repository/folder/

Solution 2:

Not sure if still relevant, but here is a setup.py based solution: https://jbhannah.net/articles/python-docker-disappearing-egg-info