Fix broken path instructions in setting up a dev environment #4519
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| python dev_tools/modules.py list --mode package-path > | ||
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| and then adding these to the virtualenv: | ||
| ```bash | ||
| add2virtualenv <paste modules from last command> | ||
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| (Typically `add2virtualenv` is not executable using xargs, so this two step process is necessary.) |
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So why exactly does something likeadd2virtualenv "$(python dev_tools/modules.py list --mode package-path | xargs)" not work ?
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Because add2virtualenv is a shell function. Depending on how this shell function was installed, one can do xargs bash -c "add2virtualenv ..." But this doesn't always work depending on how virtualenvwrapper.sh is set up.
The alternative here is to add a command to dev_tools to change the path, which I think is doable. Want this @MichaelBroughton ?
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Ahhhh in that case I'm not too bothered. I think adding an extra command is totally fine. I don't think this little sequence here warrants its own dev_tools command.
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…lib#4519) For the add2virtualenv I could only figure out a way to do it in two steps (this was on mac running big sur). If anyone has some shell foo to make this one line, that would be great.
For the add2virtualenv I could only figure out a way to do it in two steps (this was on mac running big sur). If anyone has some shell foo to make this one line, that would be great.