I understand that, but what I disagree with is modifying build_wheel to make up for a lack of consensus on editable installs.
On Aug 24, 2017 9:27 AM, "Thomas Kluyver" <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017, at 03:05 PM, xoviat wrote: > > During development, you want to use an editable install, which does modify > the source tree. > > > I think it was before you joined the discussion, but editable installs > came up before and have deliberately been left out of PEP 517 because of > the complexities. I am very keen that we do not go back into that > discussion. > > I particularly want to hear from Nick, Daniel, Donald and Paul on their > understanding of the build_directory parameter. There were reasons why it > got added, and even if those reasons no longer seem so convincing to me, > it's only going to be removed again if we can reach a consensus on working > without it. > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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