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Feature Request: Add .gitignore
to build-dir
#650
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Hi @augusew1, good question. meson-python/mesonpy/__init__.py Line 1030 in 063fe8b
I believe our understanding so far has been that users either build a wheel for a one-off install/distribution, which by default happens in a tempdir created by
In both cases a
That makes sense to me.
That shouldn't matter, right? It's called |
Interesting about editable installs, I'll read up on that.
It's called builddir everywhere if people do That being said I recognize there are better ways to do this and that this is very much a skill isuse on my end. If you would like to close this feel free. |
I think it'd be fine to add this feature actually, so I'll leave this issue open for now. Note that the selected build directory is allowed to be non-empty. That's the case for |
Hello,
This could be a misconfiguration on my part, but I am building a wheel file with
and unlike building with
meson
directly, I do not see a.gitignore
( or.hgignore
) file inbuilddir
. Specifically I see this building withI'm interested in keeping a semi-permanent build directory around because build times on Windows are exceedingly large, and the
.gitignore
file that meson usually puts in the build directory is a nice quality of life. For now I've addedbuilddir
to the project's.gitignore
file but this doesn't scale very well since we use this on multiple platforms and multiple python versions.I can reproduce this by building one of the listed examples on:
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