Possibly better installation instruction for developers about powerline HOT 8 CLOSED

Cool! Is this something that is supposed to be installed in addition to the develop tarball, or is it a replacement?

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It's a replacement. I think it symlinks (or similar) to your typical python environment directory where the tarball would normally be installed.

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Nice! I'll check it out and update the docs.

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Personally, I cloned the repo and did python setup.py develop. That basically just add's the repo PATH to the PYTHONPATH. Now all I have to do is git pull in the repo and I'm using the latest across the system. Pretty much the same affect just a different approach.

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@CodeSturgeon You can clone the repo where you want and still use pip: pip install --user -e /path/to/repo. It is doing all the necessary setup (almost exactly what you did manually, but in one turn; though using ~/.local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Powerline.egg-link in place of modifying PYTHONPATH).

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@ZyX-I I don't manually modify the PYTHONPATH, python setup.py develop does that for me by making a .egg-link. Doing pip -e at it's heart is pretty much just doing python setup.py develop along with some book keeping.

These methods all have the same result, they are just different ways of getting there 😉

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I think I'll leave this out of the docs as I don't think this applies to any significant amount of users and because it appears that different devs have different ways of accomplishing this.

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No problem, as @ZyX-I says, @CodeSturgeon's method has the same result.

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