Nathaniel: Are you okay with what has been proposed?
On Aug 24, 2017 7:29 PM, "Nathaniel Smith" <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> - I don't understand how out-of-tree builds and prepare_build_metadata > >>> are supposed to interact. > > > > They don't, since the backend should only implement > > prepare_build_metadata if it can generate the metadata without > > actually triggering a full build of all the binary artifacts. > > The reason I had this on the list is that in many build systems, these > two steps are intimately linked. E.g. in autoconf, "figure out which > dependencies I'm going to use" (aka prepare_build_metadata) and "set > up an out-of-tree build directory" are the same operation. > Alternatively "sniff the system and config files etc. to figure out > what what dependencies we're going to use" could be just another build > target -- but then it still requires that the build directory be set > up first. > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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