Feature Request: add a hatch build cli option to override the [tool.hatch.build.directory] config entry

[douardda]

A usage of this would be someone trying to build a package from a read-only device (e.g. from a RO mounted volume in a docker session). Currently it will fail with an OSError if the option [tool.hatch.build.directory] is not set to some RW location, and it will work just fine (according build plugins do the right thing as well I suppose) when setting this option in the pyproject.toml file to e.g. /tmp/dist.

It would be nice to specify it from the cli (option + environment variable) so it does not requires the pyproject file to be modified to work.

[douardda]

BTW this config option does not appear to be documented currently

[ofek]

The option from the CLI takes precedence as documented here: https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/config/build/#output-directory

[douardda]

The option from the CLI takes precedence as documented here: https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/config/build/#output-directory

Ah yes it's documented there, don't know why I missed it... Thanks.

But I don't see the 'option from the CLI takes precedence' part in this...

Oh! the [LOCATION] parameter of the hatch build command is the output directory! Gheez I also missed that! I thought it was the path to the source directory (à la pip install)! Thanks! (but oh so yeah for #1245).

Let's close this issue then. Thanks again.

[ofek]

Happy to help!