poetry build -o (was: allow configuring "dist" folder during build)

[Kaiser1989]

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Feature Request

Poetry automatically creates a folder in root called "dist" where it puts all distributions files. Is there a way to change this output folder? If not:

Make "dist" folder configurable, by setting a relative path, e.g. build/distribution. This could be done in pyproject.toml:

[build]
target-dir = "build/distribution"

or as variable in .poetry/config

[jwdevantier]

Anyone found a work-around ?

[aishfenton]

+1 for doing this. Our build environment requires it to be in a build/dist/

[mraxilus]

This issue also came up in my build environment.

[woutervh]

It seems the current sdist and wheel builder already support an optional target-directory:

https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/blob/master/src/poetry/core/masonry/builders/sdist.py#L61
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/blob/master/src/poetry/core/masonry/builders/wheel.py#L52

but they are called without it:
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/master/src/poetry/console/commands/build.py#L31

[aabmets]

[davidfstr]

Why are we not funding this?

@aabmets perhaps you could clarify your comment?

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Seems to me the next step to move this issue forward is for someone sufficiently motivated to put together a PR.

P.S. I am not a Poetry maintainer, just a subscriber to this issue. I don't happen to be sufficiently motivated myself to make a PR here.

[Secrus]

Right now, we are pushing towards the release of the 1.2 version. The feature mentioned here is not critical for the release. There is also no implementation PR or at least some PoC discussed on our discord server. If someone is interested in adding this, please start a discussion on Poetry discord so the feature can be properly talked through.

[finswimmer]

I don't think this is useful as a configuration option in the pyproject.toml. But as a command line option for poetry build this looks quite useful.

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