Re: [PATCH 4/5] python: add .gitignore

[John Snow]

On 10/28/20 4:13 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 27/10/2020 23.38, John Snow wrote:
> > Ignore build and package output (build, dist, qemu.egg-info);
> > effectively these are "in-tree" builds of a kind.
>
> Since we recently moved away from in-tree builds, could these also be made
> out-of-tree only?
>
>   Thomas

I'm not sure to be really honest with you.

For "developer installs", I think the answer is *no*, it has to be 
in-tree. Basically you are installing this directory as a living 
package, as the live copy. It adds some metadata to the folder to do 
that. No way around it.

I'll investigate, but I have doubts.

--js