mesonbuild / mesonbuild/meson-python
Better error message for editable installs with missing --no-build-isolation
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- Python
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Description
Meson needs the `--no-build-isolation` flag for editable installs. I've stumbled over a missing `--no-build-isolation` flag multiple times when a project adopted meson but I followed old install instructions.
This results in a quite cryptic stack trace. Could meson detect an editable install with missing `--no-build-isolation` and issue a more informative warning?
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Research direction
The issue does not name a file, test, or entry point. Start by locating the editable-install handling in meson-python and reproduce the cryptic failure without --no-build-isolation; done means an informative warning is emitted for that case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100