. only works with --editable

[altendky]

I am in an empty directory so the failure to install due to lack of pyproject.toml is expected. What is not expected is the failure to parse . at all without --editable having been specified.

$ python3.11 -m venv venv

$ venv/bin/python -m pip install 'uv @ git+https://github.com/astral-sh/uv@1ed6ba0ba0d3756312085ec21c90469985b5bbb6'
Collecting uv@ git+https://github.com/astral-sh/uv@1ed6ba0ba0d3756312085ec21c90469985b5bbb6
  Using cached uv-0.1.2-py3-none-linux_x86_64.whl
Installing collected packages: uv
Successfully installed uv-0.1.2

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$ source venv/bin/activate

(venv) $ ls -la
total 52
drwxrwxr-x 12 altendky altendky 4096 Feb 16 10:09  .
drwxr-x--- 51 altendky altendky 4096 Feb 16 09:55  ..
drwxrwxr-x  4 altendky altendky 4096 Dec  5 08:29  blue
drwxrwxr-x  4 altendky altendky 4096 Dec 12 09:17  c
drwxrwxr-x 11 altendky altendky 4096 Nov 29 07:31  chia-blockchain
drwxrwxr-x  3 altendky altendky 4096 Dec  1 12:12 'chia-installers-linux-rpm-intel (3)'
drwxrwxr-x  2 altendky altendky 4096 Dec  4 10:01  hwd
drwxrwxr-x  5 altendky altendky 4096 Nov 30 15:29  it
drwxrwxr-x  2 altendky altendky 4096 Dec  4 16:06  oc
drwxrwxr-x  3 altendky altendky 4096 Dec 13 13:46  p
drwxrwxr-x  3 altendky altendky 4096 Nov 18 14:00  .pytest_cache
drwxrwxr-x  5 altendky altendky 4096 Feb 16 10:09  venv
-rw-rw-r--  1 altendky altendky  793 Nov 18 14:27  x.py

(venv) $ python -m uv pip install .
error: Failed to parse `.`
  Caused by: Expected package name starting with an alphanumeric character, found '.'
.
^

(venv) $ python -m uv pip install --editable .
error: Failed to build editables
  Caused by: Failed to build editable: file:///home/altendky/tmp
  Caused by: Invalid source distribution: The archive contains neither a `pyproject.toml` nor a `setup.py` file at the top level

(venv) $ python -m pip install .
ERROR: Directory '.' is not installable. Neither 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found.

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[zanieb]

Thanks for the thorough report!

Please see #313 and #1424

[altendky]

I wasn't sure what to search for and so I missed it. Thanks for the help with that. I'll try being more explicit with the file @ package-name @ form. Thanks!

[charliermarsh]

FWIW, the . should work ok, it's just that we require a package name, so you can either do:

uv pip install "foo @ ."

Or:

uv pip install -e .

[altendky]

Thanks for the specifics. That's exactly what I was going to try, though in my case I'm also specifying extras. First pass didn't work, but I'll dig a bit and see if I still need to follow up.

[charliermarsh]

Please do, happy to help.

[henryiii]

I was testing this out as a replacement for nox, and this will break a lot of nox scripts which assume pip install . works, it's a very common idiom.

It is insanely fast though as a nox backend. :)

[altendky]

I believe the idea is that the case reported here would be addressed by #313. At least that's why I was comfortable closing this issue.

[charliermarsh]

This is supported as of v0.1.24. You can uv pip install . directly, without including a package name.