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
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
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
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
>>>