Install multiple [editable] packages from src/<packageN>?

[jmuchovej]

👋 is it possible to have two packages, which are editable, installed via tools.pixi.pypi-dependencies?

src
├── package1
│  └── __init__.py
└── package2
   └── __init__.py

essentially, if i have a pyproject.toml like the following:

[project]
name = "package1"
requires-python = ">=3.12"
version = "0.1.0"

[tool.pixi.pypi-dependencies]
package1 = { path = ".", editable = true }
package2 = { path = ".", editable = true }

i only end up with package1 installed after doing pixi install. so i'm curious if it's possible to install (and how so) multiple packages like this?

my use-case is essentially – i'm replicating some research code which i want to freeze (since they just used a flat file structure, which i don't want to). so i've forked their code and aimed to repackage it into package2, so i could import it within package1 and anywhere else i might need it.

if i update my pyproject.toml by removing editable = true on the package2 = ... line, then i get an error stating "package metadata name package1 does not match the given name package2.

i'm not entirely sure how much of this is a pixi issue vs python toolchain, but i figured someone here would know better than i do. 😅

[ruben-arts]

I think you need to specify your build system to use the src-layout

.
├── pixi.lock
├── pyproject.toml
└── src
    ├── package1
    │   └── __init__.py
    └── package2
        └── __init__.py

pyproject.toml:

[project]
name = "package_name"
requires-python = ">= 3.11"
version = "0.1.0"

[build-system]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"
requires = ["hatchling"]

[tool.pixi.project]
channels = ["conda-forge"]
platforms = ["linux-64"]

[tool.pixi.pypi-dependencies]
package_name = { path = ".", editable = true }

[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
packages = ["src/package1", "src/package2"]

❯ pixi run python
Python 3.12.5 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Aug  8 2024, 18:36:51) [GCC 12.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import package1
>>> package1.package1()
package1
>>> import package2
>>> package2.package2()
package2
>>> exit()

[jmuchovej]

thanks! so, this is definitely on the right track – you do need the last set of lines in your pyproject.toml; critically, though, the package_name cannot overlap with either of src/package1 and src/package2. (i didn't specify that there was an overlap, but this is the last bit of information i needed for this approach to work.)

[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
packages = ["src/package1", "src/package2"]

(turns out the above solution works – my issue also due to project.name = research-project while the key in tool.pixi.pypi-depdencies.research_project = ... – project.name needed to be research_project, and the overlapping names caused no issues!)

[ruben-arts]

Fixed by #2073