6.5.5 version does not generate dist directory during building

[D3vil0p3r]

I am building timezonefinder from source by:

  cd "timezonefinder-6.5.5"

  python -m build --no-isolation --wheel --outdir="$startdir/dist"

but it does not generate any dist directory. I am using the package from PyPI.

It works only if I remove cd "timezonefinder-6.5.5" and I run directly python -m build --wheel --outdir="$startdir/dist" ./timezonefinder-6.5.5

[jannikmi]

Thanks for reporting this. Can you reproduce this behaviour for the older version 6.5.4?
If not, then it has something to do with the distutils dependency

[D3vil0p3r]

I tried it on versions from 6.5.5 to 6.5.0.

[jannikmi]

And did it work?

Could you please try with the poetry build command?

[D3vil0p3r]

By those versions it didn't work. By using poetry build it works... I don't understand why python -m build --no-isolation --wheel --outdir="$startdir/dist" at this point does not work when I run it in timezonefinder-6.5.5 directory. I need python -m build because I need to specify --outdir for packaging timezonefinder in Arch distros.

[jannikmi]

Can anyone help with this?

[jannikmi]

@D3vil0p3r have you looked into why python -m build ... does not work as expected?
Do other users have the same issue?
Is this a problem with timezonefinder?

[D3vil0p3r]

I used the same approach of AUR.