It would be simpler if the only requirement was to produce a correct wheel.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 20:07 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > 4. The point of all this is that the definition of build_directory > > says "If build_directory is None, the backend may do an 'in place' > > build which modifies the source directory and may produce different > > results from those that would be obtained by exporting an sdist > > first". > > Is it really necessary for pip to specify exactly *where* to do > an out-of-place build? Why should it care, as long as the end > result is a clean wheel? > > -- > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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