[Distutils] A possible refactor/streamlining of PEP 517

[Jeremy Kloth]

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 July 2017 at 23:23, Daniel Holth <dholth at 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.

No, Daniel is correct.  "setup.py *build* -b" is short for
--build-base which is where all build artifacts go, even those from
compilers.  It seems you are confusing it with "setup.py *bdist* -b"
which is indeed short for "--bdist-dir".

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Jeremy Kloth