On 20 May 2000, Bastian Kleineidam said:

I found a misleading behaviour with the --dry-run option. Suppose you create a directory and then you copy a file in this directory. With --dry-run the directory is not created and this makes the copy_file function to announce the renaming of the file rather than copying it into the new directory.

code snippet: ./setup.py --dry-run build [...] creating build/scripts copying linkchecker -> build

should be: creating build/scripts copying linkchecker -> build/scripts

Ooh, sneaky sneaky! This is both a feature and a bug, if you'll buy that. I've just changed how 'copy_file()' does its verbose output so that the feature part outweighs the bug part. ('copy_file()' still misunderstands what it's doing in dry-run mode when you try to copy to a directory that doesn't exist. But it now prints output that makes it *look* like it knows what it's doing. Since this only affects the verbose output in dry-run mode, I think that *looking* good is good enough.) Greg -- Greg Ward - geek gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I appoint you ambassador to Fantasy Island!!!