That is actually the first time that build_dir makes sense to me now. Thank you.
2017-08-24 10:24 GMT-05:00 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com>: > 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 >
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