Cannot install manim in editable mode

[adamryczkowski]

After cloning the manim, according to the documentation (https://docs.manim.community/en/v0.4.0/installation/for_dev.html, "Manim Installation For Developers with pip") I tried to

$ pip install -e <path to manim repo root>
ERROR: File "setup.py" not found. Directory cannot be installed in editable mode: /home/adam/manim
(A "pyproject.toml" file was found, but editable mode currently requires a setup.py based build.)

After reading through the github issues (like #754 ) I found out, that in theory the project should be installable in edit mode by using some "poetry" tool like this:

$ cd /home/adam/manim
$ poetry build 
Building manim (0.4.0)
  - Building sdist
  - Built manim-0.4.0.tar.gz
  - Building wheel
  - Built manim-0.4.0-py3-none-any.whl
$ pip install -e .
ERROR: File "setup.py" not found. Directory cannot be installed in editable mode: /home/adam/manim
(A "pyproject.toml" file was found, but editable mode currently requires a setup.py based build.)

Expected behavior:

Ability to somehow install manim in editable mode. I am tracking a bug and want to quickly be able to troubleshoot it in-place.

System specifications

OS Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
16GB RAM
Python 3.8.5

[naveen521kk]

You can run poetry install after installing poetry. You don't need to run poetry build and #754 is misleading because it is for someone who can't use poetry.

See the discussion on poetry's thread python-poetry/poetry#1135 (comment)

Also, see out https://docs.manim.community/en/v0.4.0/installation/for_dev.html#installing-manim-using-poetry

[adamryczkowski]

Here is the solution:

1. Install the poetry (using pip is enough)
2. change directory to the pulled root of the pulled manim repository.
3. poetry install there.

Poetry installs packages in editable mode