[Distutils] --help-commands option to easy_install not working

The Cadet cadet.bramble at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 07:48:14 CEST 2007


Hi,

I wanted to get more help on the command line for ``easy_install``
commands. Running ``easy_install --help`` tells me::

    Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)

but the ``--help-commands`` option does not seem to work::

    $ easy_install --help-commands
    usage: easy_install [options] requirement_or_url ...
       or: easy_install --help

    error: option --help-commands not recognized

I'm using ``setuptools-0.6c7-py2.5.egg``.

Is this something that's already been fixed?

I checked the docs at
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall , but the only
mention of ``--help-commands`` was in the 0.6a10 section where it said
"Fixed the annoying --help-commands wart.". No idea what that means.

Thanks.


More information about the Distutils-SIG mailing list