Re: [Distutils] Distutils question

2017-07-09 Thread Daniel Holth
Great, thanks! It looks like out of tree builds are supported fine even in distutils. Properly written extensions will also find the build directory as a property of the build command. There should be no barrier to using the single build wheel function for the pep. On Sun, Jul 9, 2017, 10:33

Re: [Distutils] Distutils question

2017-07-09 Thread Jeremy Kloth
On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > Unrelated to pep 517, remind me whether when invoking setup.py build -b > dir bdist, if the -b argument passed to the build command is supposed to > affect the build command run as a subcommand of bdist? Asking for a friend

Re: [Distutils] A possible refactor/streamlining of PEP 517

2017-07-09 Thread Steve Dower
Big +1 for passing the option to the backend rather than making the frontend figure out how to do each backend’s job for them. And add MSBuild to the list, which trivially supports separate source, intermediate and output directories, as well as incremental rebuilds. (And recently got full

Re: [Distutils] A possible refactor/streamlining of PEP 517

2017-07-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 9 July 2017 at 01:17, Jeremy Kloth wrote: > On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> On 7 July 2017 at 23:23, Daniel Holth wrote: >>> FYI distutils supports out of tree builds too. It is the -b argument to >>>