What happened to the -e option for pip?

Question

The documentation for the protocol mentions the option -efor pip, and it is also used by some BuildBot developers to "get started . " However, I have pip 1.0.1 and it works:

pip -e master

Reports

Usage: pip COMMAND [OPTIONS]

pip: error: no such option: -e

Version 1.0.1 of pip is apparently the latest, since pip does not load a newer version for this update itself. What happened to the option -e?

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Dickon reed Jun 01 '11 at 18:22

1 answer

peritus · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-01T18:45:01+0000

He is still there! But -e is an option only pip install, not pip.

$ pip install -e
Usage: /usr/local/bin/pip install [OPTIONS] PACKAGE_NAMES...

/usr/local/bin/pip install: error: -e option requires an argument