is it possible to change the build/__editable__ directory?

[dvarrazzo]

Hello,

I am developing web services and testing them running in docker containers, which, in development mode, have my source directory mounted as volume and are installed in (strict) editable way.

As such, my source tree is mounted in editable way twice:

• from the host (for interactive work, to allow my editor to infer types, etc)
• from the docker container (to run the service)

The fact that the same build directory is used in two fundamentally different environment, by two different unix users, easily cause conflicts (a build in the container results in files owned by root in the host, and various other glitches).

Is there the possibility to move the build directory elsewhere? It doesn't seem from the docs and from pip -h and pip install -h.