RE: [Distutils] Some suggested additions for distutils

From: Andrew Kuchling [mailto:akuchlin@mems-exchange.org]
Missed that one. I think I was looking at the help for the install command, not at the global help. Sorry, Paul.

On 24 October 2000, Moore, Paul said:
Missed that one. I think I was looking at the help for the install command, not at the global help.
*All* Distutil commands have a --dry-run option -- it's a universal constant, along with --verbose. One caveat: the "install" command is completely filesystem-driven, so if you do a dry-run build and install, it looks like nothing would get installed, since there's nothing actually in the "build" tree to drive installation. Bug? feature? I dunno... Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux nerd gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they *aren't* out to get you.

On 24 October 2000, Moore, Paul said:
Missed that one. I think I was looking at the help for the install command, not at the global help.
*All* Distutil commands have a --dry-run option -- it's a universal constant, along with --verbose. One caveat: the "install" command is completely filesystem-driven, so if you do a dry-run build and install, it looks like nothing would get installed, since there's nothing actually in the "build" tree to drive installation. Bug? feature? I dunno... Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux nerd gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they *aren't* out to get you.
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