Improve documentation for in-place builds #8093
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So, uh, I am feeling a little reckless here, this is a documentation-only change, I don't think this is a break-the-bank change as a whole, and we can fix everything except the NEWS fragment later, so... My point is, I'm merging this without reviews and feeling a little guilty about doing this. :) |
| the directory and then deleted. This notably includes the ``build`` and | ||
| ``.egg-info`` directories in the case of the setuptools build backend. | ||
| Building of local directories is now done in place, instead of a temporary | ||
| location containing a copy of the directory tree. |
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@pradyunsg I think that calling out the effect of this change (namely that .egg-info or build directories get created) in the changelog could have increased uor chances to get better feedback during the beta period.
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You are correct! And...
we can fix everything except the NEWS fragment later
I just realized that this is not true.
RTD is smart enough to detect beta release numbers, so that they don't end up on stable. So... we can update the NEWS.rst file on master directly to add this information.
Follow up on #7882 (comment).