[Python-Dev] addressing distutils inability to track file dependencies

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido wrote:
> Instead of bothering with the (mostly) harmless but also mostly
> unhelpful manuals, try the --help feature.  E.g. this has the info you
> want:

I think I got sidetracked by the --help-commands summary, which
sort of implies that build_ext is just a subvariant of build...

(maybe we could add a --help-commands-long option that lists
both the command names and their descriptions?  my brain clearly
couldn't execute [--help x for x in commands] without adding an
arbitrary if-clause, but I'm sure distutils can do that...)

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