July 8, 2017
2:57 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:23 AM Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI distutils supports out of tree builds too. It is the -b argument to 'setup.py build'.
And it works in bdist_wheel by adding half a dozen lines. It copies the -b argument to the 'build' subcommand, so effectively you can put the ./build/ directory wherever you want. This will probably also solve other problems people sometimes have with 'unclean' bdist_wheel builds. As a bonus it no longer works in Python 2.6. +1 on Thomas' added wording.