[Python-Dev] distutils & stderr

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "GW" == Greg Ward <gward@python.net> writes:

  GW> Oh wait: most of the low-level worker code in the Distutils
  GW> falls outside the main class hierarchy, so the verbose flag
  GW> isn't *quite* so readily available; it gets passed in to a heck
  GW> of a lot of functions.  Crap.

I wish it were so clean and simple, Greg <wink>.  In a lot of places,
the binary verbose flag that is stored in the main class hierarchy is
compared to some a var named "level".  The result of that comparison
is passed to functions, which ignore it and just use print.  At least
sometimes.

Jeremy