[Distutils] Distutils question

Unrelated to pep 517, remind me whether when invoking setup.py build -b dir bdist, if the -b argument passed to the build command is supposed to affect the build command run as a subcommand of bdist? Asking for a friend  On Sat, Jul 8, 2017, 11:17 Jeremy Kloth wrote: >

Re: [Distutils] A possible refactor/streamlining of PEP 517

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 7 July 2017 at 23:23, Daniel Holth wrote: >> FYI distutils supports out of tree builds too. It is the -b argument to >> 'setup.py build'. > > Sort of. That's short for "--bdist-dir" and tells