README instructions correct?

[egonw]

Following the README which writes:

Download and install from source in development mode:

```shell
$ git clone https://github.com/cthoyt/pybacting
$ cd pybacting
$ pip install --editable .

... I get this error:

pybacting$ pip install --editable .
ERROR: File "setup.py" not found. Directory cannot be installed in editable mode: /home/egonw/var/Projects/hub/pybacting
(A "pyproject.toml" file was found, but editable mode currently requires a setup.py based build.)

[cthoyt]

If you're using a modern version of python or pip, this should work. Try getting on py37+ and running pip install --upgrade pip and see if this persists

[egonw]

$ dpkg -l python3 python3-pip
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version          Architecture Description
+++-==============-================-============-=========================================================================
ii  python3        3.9.2-3          amd64        interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)
ii  python3-pip    20.3.4-4+deb11u1 all          Python package installer

[cthoyt]

pip has year-based versioning, so indeed you have a 2+ year old version of pip (i.e., the 20 in 20.3.4 corresponds to 2020). I'm pretty content continuing to not support this, considering that even older versions of python can also upgrade to the most recent versions of pip.

[egonw]

Got it!