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pip-wheel-metadata configurable

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At the moment pip generates a pip-wheel-metadata folder right alongside the setup.py. Can we move this to some other temporary folder via some flag/environment variable to not pollute the project source directory once someone does a pip install .? Thanks!

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Created 5 years ago
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dstufftcommented, Jan 29, 2019

Speaking to @pfmoore last point, the feels like something where we don’t need a configuration knob. Unless I’m mistaken, this directory doesn’t need to persist between invocations of pip, so why not just always put it in a temporary location instead of pooping it into the current directory?

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ei-gradcommented, Mar 20, 2019

Hi everybody. It looks not so critical maybe, but IMO it is still quite a big issue because it affects many users. What is the stopper here?

Also, is it technically possible to add the check in tests that pip would never behave in such undesirable way again? I mean that it shouldn’t place any its utility files in the project working space (excluding the build/dist/*.egg-info and “hidden” directories). How such behavior/regression tests could look like?

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