Add news fragment.

jaraco · jaraco · commit 86f11f0e1615 · 2025-04-26T20:29:41.000-04:00
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+Develop command no longer uses easy_install, but instead defers execution to pip (which then will re-invoke Setuptools via PEP 517 to build the editable wheel). Most of the options to develop are dropped. This is the final warning before the command is dropped completely in a few months. Use-cases relying on 'setup.py develop' should pin to older Setuptools version or migrate to modern build tooling.

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	`1`	`+Develop command no longer uses easy_install, but instead defers execution to pip (which then will re-invoke Setuptools via PEP 517 to build the editable wheel). Most of the options to develop are dropped. This is the final warning before the command is dropped completely in a few months. Use-cases relying on 'setup.py develop' should pin to older Setuptools version or migrate to modern build tooling.`