On 24 August 2017 at 16:20, xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I *do* care about telling backends we don't want "different > results from those that would be obtained by exporting an sdist > first". > > I completely agree with this statement, but I don't believe that it can or > should be accomplished with this parameter. Let me just quote the process > that I proposed: > > >> Proposed process: > - Frontend copies source tree to temporary directory
That step's the problem. If the frontend does that it can potentially be copying a lot of unneeded stuff (VCS history, for example). We tried that with pip and it was a major issue. That problem is the *whole point* of all the discussions about the various proposals that ended up with build_tree. > - Frontend invokes build-sdist to build an sdist > - Frontend extracts sdist to new temporary directory > - Frontend reloads backend from sdist directory and invokes build-wheel Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
