[Distutils] setuptools -- passing options to subcommands?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:22 PM 11/2/2007 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>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.

Well, at least I knew an answer to the old question.  Now I have no 
idea what you're asking.  :)