Thanks a lot for creating an issue for the case. Sorry, I couldn't have
joined the discussion earlier.

> It seems like this has been the case since 2014 (around pip 6.x), from
reading https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/906

Huh, thanks. If it was changed that long ago, then I guess we can safely
drop "--build-dir", and that will be it.

But let's continue on Github :)

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 2:38 PM Tzu-ping Chung <uranu...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 01/12/2020, at 02:24, Mikhail Golubev via Distutils-SIG <
> distutils-sig@python.org> wrote:
>
> The second question is about the behavior of this option. It appears that
> we initially started using it because in the past packages were not built
> in a temporary directory by default. Could you please point me to the exact
> version of pip where it changed? -- I couldn't find it in a changelog. It
> would help us decide whether we need to keep some compatibility layer for
> interpreters with an old version of pip installed.
>
>
> It seems like this has been the case since 2014 (around pip 6.x), from
> reading https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/906
>
> --
> Tzu-ping Chung (@uranusjr)
> uranu...@gmail.com
> https://uranusjr.com
>


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