On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > FYI distutils supports out of tree builds too. It is the -b argument to > 'setup.py build'.
In theory, yes, but in practice, there are lots of setup.py files out there that mutate the source directory. For example, every project using Cython. I don't think a distutils/setuptools backend could comply with Thomas's wording except by doing a copytree or sdist or something just-in-case. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
