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Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
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Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

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The issue reports a manual PyPI source-distribution installation path for IronPython using ipy -X:Frames -m ensurepip and editable pip installation. No target file or explicit documentation change is identified; verify whether these commands remain valid, and consider the work complete only when a maintainer-approved installation note is added.

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Description

Hi guys, this is a really useful library - thankyou!

I just wanted to share with other users that to use it, I downloaded the Source Distribution from PyPi manually, extracted it, cd'd into its base folder, and then was able to install this using:

ipy -X:Frames -m ensurepip
ipy -X:Frames -m pip install -e (possibly also in an admin cmd, I can't remember)

As it happens, I've never been able to get IronPython 2.7 to install anything from PyPi, I get some /html5/ None + int TypeError or other).

But now, I happily managed to pass 18/23 of my tests after only 5 minutes or so tinkering - so thankyou ever so much! You've saved me from having to set everything up to use unittest!

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