Missing The Obvious

I recently wrote about a problem in pip which was annoying me. Since then, I've looked for a work around but couldn't find one. At the last PyGTA meeting, I talked to Myles about it. When I explained how I used

pip install -e .

to install the application under development into the virtualenv, he noted that it was just like "development mode" in setuptools:

python setup.py devel

*facepalm* (which isn't easy when you wear glasses. ^^)

I don't know how I missed such an obvious answer. Thanks Myles.