[Distutils] install --dry-run broken?

[Ben Finney]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
> > The documentation says that when --dry-run is used: "don't actually
> > do anything". This is not the actual behavior. I'd be happy to see
> > the option go away.
>
> I wouldn't! I find it useful for testing a setup.py that I'm about to
> distribute, to make sure it isn't going to fall over due to some
> stupid bug as soon as someone tries to use it.

Are you saying that the feature does work as described? If not, what
does it do that you find useful?

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Ben Finney