[Distutils] Fwd: Re: PEP 517 again

[Daniel Holth]

It would be simpler if the only requirement was to produce a correct wheel.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 20:07 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Paul Moore wrote:
> > 4. The point of all this is that the definition of build_directory
> > says "If build_directory is None, the backend may do an 'in place'
> > build which modifies the source directory and may produce different
> > results from those that would be obtained by exporting an sdist
> > first".
>
> Is it really necessary for pip to specify exactly *where* to do
> an out-of-place build? Why should it care, as long as the end
> result is a clean wheel?
>
> --
> Greg
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