July 4, 2017
8:58 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017, at 09:45 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
+1, but we should explicitly note in the rationale section of the PEP that it's to cover both of the following cases:
* build from an already unpacked and potentially edited sdist" * cleanly support explicitly out-of-tree builds even when the dependencies for working with the VCS aren't available
I'm happy to add a note about these requirements. Are you planning to merge some of Nathaniel's rewrite? If so, I'll hold off from making any changes until that is done. Thomas