[Distutils] setuptools -- passing options to subcommands?

[Matthias Klose]

Phillip J. Eby writes:
> At 03:51 PM 11/2/2007 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >I'd like to omit the python version in the .egg-info directory name
> >when using the --single-version-externally-managed option. In this
> >case I know that the module is installed in a patch specific to the
> >python version. How can this option be propagated to the subcommands
> >'install_egg_info' and 'install_scripts'?
> 
> install_egg_info does not have an option to omit the python version. 

sorry, maybe I was not clear; I know that such an option doesn't exist
yet. I was trying to add such an option, therefore the question how to
pass this option to the subcommand.

  Matthias