hello all. is it possible to update a custom loader without doing meltano install at each new modifications of the source ?

I don’t think you do (I’m almost 100% sure)

https://meltano.com/docs/plugin-management.html#custom-plugins the -e option should do what you're after. Just watch out for https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2653

@flat-bear-81546 the documents that you are referring to are kind of the standard taps But if you change the git source (for example a fork or something), you need to do the

meltano install

again https://p479.p0.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/4gu20yGe/83ac6319-28d6-45cb-8c01-d555a911419a.jpg?v=951cf443bd61ee4f86fd86657d81a3ed

ok thanks, heavy process to dev/debug a custom tap so

ahh alright! I think I tried the -e locally and it didn't work. I thought it was just due to the issue that I referred to though 😕

@incalculable-egg-31160 You can test the taps on your computer before using the pipelines with meltano

yes, i know, but they could be some differencies on execution , context..etc..

@incalculable-egg-31160 Have you tried setting the

pip_url

to

-e path/to/custom/tap

? That way Meltano should always use the latest executable in that directory and you shouldn't need to explicitly reinstall it between changes. As @flat-bear-81546 points out though, that doesn't currently work with custom taps that use

pyproject.toml

instead of

setup.py