> > On Sep 5, 2017, at 4:36 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Does pip in fact use /tmp for temporary directories? (It's not always > the right choice, because /tmp has limited space on some systems, e.g. > b/c it's on a ramdisk. If we still had build_directory= then this > could be an issue, since build directories can be arbitrarily large; > maybe it's not a big deal now that we only need the tmpdir to handle a > single sdist/wheel/dist-info.)
It does by default yes. It just uses the tempfile module so it respects $TMPDIR directory and everything if people want to point it to a different directory. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
