On 7 July 2017 at 23:23, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI distutils supports out of tree builds too. It is the -b argument to 'setup.py build'.
Sort of. That's short for "--bdist-dir" and tells distutils/setuptools not to use the "dist/" subdirectory for either build trees or the build artifacts. It doesn't say anything about where intermediate artifacts generated by compilers etc should end up. For a hypothetical PEP 517 setuptools/distutils backend, I'd suggest an implementation that: - passed "--bdist-dir=<wheel_directory>" to "bdist_wheel" - copied the input files into the specific directory when "build_directory" was set and then did a normal in-place build in that directory Whereas for enscons, you could presumably just set "variant_dir" appropriately in the SConscript call (which, as it turns out, works by copying the input files to the designated build directory: http://scons.org/doc/2.1.0/HTML/scons-user/x3398.html). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia