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cascade+editable builds #3550

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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion tutorial/developing_packages/editable_packages.rst
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Expand Up @@ -212,7 +212,11 @@ Note that if we don't pass the ``--build=editable`` to ``conan build hello``, th
won't be available and it will fail. With the ``--build=editable``, first a build of the ``say`` binaries is done locally and
incrementally, and then another incremental build of ``hello`` will be done. Everything will still happen locally, with no packages
built in the cache. If there are multiple ``editable`` dependencies, with nested transitive dependencies, Conan will build them
in the right order.
in the right order.

If editable packages have dependants in the Conan cache, it is possible to force the rebuild from source of the
cache dependants by using ``--build=editable --build=cascade``. In general this should be avoided, and the recommendation if it
is needed to rebuild those dependencies is to put them in editable mode too.

Note that it is possible to build and test a package in editable with with its own ``test_package`` folder.
If a package is put in ``editable`` mode, and if it contains a ``test_package`` folder, the ``conan create`` command
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