After PRODUCTION install I get "WARN: bench is installed in editable mode!"

[bkm]

@kennethsequeira

Yeah, not sure why easy install is still using the manual method of installing bench whereas all the manual methods have moved to installation via pip

Probably because of this problem:

Upgrading to version-12 ... what about updating bench itself?

Hi @vrms, TLDR → I believe that Bench now must be installed twice. First as a regular user. Then again as root user. Explanation: @bkm and I were discussing this last month. We discovered several challenges during v13 installation. In Bench 4.0 and earlier, the official instructions for installing Bench was using pip’s “editable mode”. This was the 'pip3 install -e .' command. Now, Bench is available on PyPi.org. So we install using pip3 install frappe-bench. This command downloads Be…

This is the reason I tagged you back on the correction you suggested about how best to install bench. Your method leave bench partially unusable unless it is installed twice as discussed in the above link.

Do you have an alternate solution?

BKM