On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:04 PM, chris <cdcasey@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a way in distutils / setuptools to list the available build
commands via porperty or function?

commands usually calls other commands (bdist for instance calls build)

you can get a list of commands with:

$ python setup.py --help-commands

but i don't think you can list the underlying commands. The only
way is to look into the code of each commands.


Specifically, I want to be able to add a configuration and build some
classes only if one of these commands is specified.

what are you trying to do precisely ?


python setup.py build <----- confuguration added
python setup.py sdist bdist_egg <----- confuguration added

you are building two distributions here, one source (.tar.gz) and one binary (.egg)
look into your dist/ folder.
 

python setup.py sdist <----- confuguration not added

Maybe there's a better way to do it.






-Chris
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