[Distutils] 'clean' and '--help' suggestions.

Titus Brown titus at caltech.edu
Mon Jan 17 20:53:29 CET 2005


-> Please post the patches to SourceForge.

patch at

http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/transfer/python-distutils-help-patch

patch 1104111 on SF w/patch file attached.

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% python setup.py --help
Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)

  setup.py build      will build the package underneath 'build/'
  setup.py install    will install the package

Global options:
...

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and

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% python setup.py --help-commands
Standard commands:
...
  clean            clean up temporary files from 'build' command
...
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Also note that on

	http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/cvs.html

the CVS hostname needs to be changed to 'cvs.sf.net' from
'cvs.python.sf.net' to accomodate changes in SF...

cheers,
--titus


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