On Thu, Aug 24, 2017, at 05:26 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > by including the build_dir parameter, a nearly universal build > system concept, pip gets an elegant way to ask for either a clean or > unclean build. Is there a reason to ask for an 'unclean' build, though? There may be a performance optimisation from reusing cached data, but building in a separate directory doesn't preclude caching intermediates somewhere else.
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