Re: [Distutils] The "dist" command

-----Original Message----- From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
Fred, Ignoring the fact that Greg was being facetious (I hope...). There is a free replacement for Win32 called, oddly enough, find. From the cygnus win32 GNU utilties: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ Makes a unix-weenie feel right at home on win32. -Perry

Perry Stoll writes:
Perry, Actually, I was already aware of that, and the MKS Toolkit as well (which includes a non-free version of find). However, these are both third-party addons, even if one is free. Since the use of find in this case is quite simple, I think implementing a "manifest" command in distutils would be worth the 15-20 lines of code it would take. I'd hate for us to recommend users to go install YASP ("yet another software package") just to be able to get a list of files and directories! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Perry Stoll wrote: [snip]
Extreme off-topic... Cygwin was benchtested by an Australian computer magazine and it verified that GCC (DJGPP) generates smaller files quicker and in less space than Visual C. [Now I know why python compiles so quickly compared to VC project file;)] Seriously, Cygwin is basicaly unix for NT Cheers, Anthony Pfrunder Computer Systems Engineering University of Queensland

Perry Stoll writes:
Perry, Actually, I was already aware of that, and the MKS Toolkit as well (which includes a non-free version of find). However, these are both third-party addons, even if one is free. Since the use of find in this case is quite simple, I think implementing a "manifest" command in distutils would be worth the 15-20 lines of code it would take. I'd hate for us to recommend users to go install YASP ("yet another software package") just to be able to get a list of files and directories! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Perry Stoll wrote: [snip]
Extreme off-topic... Cygwin was benchtested by an Australian computer magazine and it verified that GCC (DJGPP) generates smaller files quicker and in less space than Visual C. [Now I know why python compiles so quickly compared to VC project file;)] Seriously, Cygwin is basicaly unix for NT Cheers, Anthony Pfrunder Computer Systems Engineering University of Queensland
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