On Tue, Jul 4, 2017, at 09:45 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > +1, but we should explicitly note in the rationale section of the PEP > that it's to cover both of the following cases: > > * build from an already unpacked and potentially edited sdist" > * cleanly support explicitly out-of-tree builds even when the > dependencies for working with the VCS aren't available
I'm happy to add a note about these requirements. Are you planning to merge some of Nathaniel's rewrite? If so, I'll hold off from making any changes until that is done. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig