At 02:54 PM 4/22/2010 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
I tried the distutils example:
http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#a-simple-example
running
python2.6 setup.py install --dry-run
(or python2.6 setup.py install -n)
installed the package.
Am I missunderstanding something? Or is --dry-run an april fool's
joke? :)
It appears the issue is that this has always been broken in
distutils. What you need to do is:
python2.6 setup.py --dry-run install
(Or -n).
The problem is that the 'install' command doesn't pass on its local
--dry-run flag to any of the subcommands that do the real work.
Probably, the --dry-run option should be dropped from the individual
commands altogether in distutils2, with only a global flag being allowed.
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