On Fri, Jul 14, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > OTOH this whole 11th hour discussion of forcing every build system to > have in-tree and out-of-tree build support is solving some other > problem.
It is not my intention to force build systems to support either of these. - Where build systems only support out-of-tree builds, it should be trivial to create a temporary directory when build_directory is not passed. - Where build systems only support in-tree builds, they should copy the necessary files to build_directory and run an in-tree build there. This is more complex, but it appears to be non-negotiable that there is some way of building without affecting the source directory, so whatever the interface is, we need some way to do this. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
