[Distutils] Fwd: Re: PEP 517 again

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:17 PM, xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm *not* OK with banning in-tree builds in the spec, since that's
> > both unnecessary and unenforceable
>
> Well then either we can trust the backend or we cannot. If we can, then this
> is both necessary and enforceable. If not, then we're back to pip copying
> files. You can't make and argument that it's okay to trust build_sdist but
> not build_wheel.

I think at this point everyone has made their peace with the pip
developers' decision that they want to keep copying files -- at least
for now -- and that's just how it's going to be. This email has a more
detailed discussion of the options, their "threat model", and the
tradeoffs:

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-July/031020.html

I can see an argument for adding language saying that build_sdist
SHOULD avoid modifying the source tree if possible, and MAY write
scratch files to the sdist_directory.

-n

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