Developer installation

Those developing for polymerist may like to have an editable local installation, in which they can make changes to the source code and test behavior changes in real-time.

In this case, one requires an “editable build” which mirrors the source files that live in the site_packages directory of the created environment. This type of installation proceeds as follows:

git clone https://github.com/timbernat/polymerist
cd polymerist
mamba env create -n polymerist-dev -f devtools/conda-envs/dev-build.yml
mamba activate polymerist-dev
pip install -e . --config-settings editable_mode=strict

The –config-settings editable_mode flag in the final line allows this installation to “play nicely” with PyLance, making auto-completion and navigation to source code much easier for VSCode users. It is optional, and can be removed if this compatibility is not desired