[Distutils] Another requested feature (with patch)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Sat Apr 7 05:55:15 2001


Robert Kern wrote:
> 
> * add a --skip-build option to the bdist, bdist_dumb, and bdist_wininst
>   commands. This is necessary when trying to build on Windows with mingw32
>   since the plain bdist_* commands will try to rebuild with MSVCCompiler.
>   I have a patch that seems to work with the dumb formats and Windows
>   installer. I didn't quite grok the bdist_rpm code, so I don't quite
>   know how to work it in there.
> 
>   The patch is attached. I can put it on the Sourceforge Patch Manager
>   if someone likes.

Please do so that we don't forget about the patch ;-)

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