[Distutils] bdist and --compiler

[Rene Liebscher]

Greg Ward wrote:

> Scanning the output of this, I see:
> 
>   build, build_ext, build_clib      --compiler
>   sdist                             --formats
>   bdist                             --formats
> 
> written that way because the three commands with --compiler have the
> same list of compilers, but the two options with --format have different
> lists of formats.  So yes, you got them all.  

If I try 'help' to sdist and bdist, I get 'formats' and 'format'. I
think
we should change this so both are called 'format'.
 
> Rene, can you whip up a patch for this?  Thanks!

I will try to track down all your options processing and then
send you a patch, but it will take a while.


Kind regards

Rene Liebscher