New submission from Daniel Eloff: There seems to be no way to skip the build step when running "setup.py install" The behavior in such a case should be to skip build and use the existing binaries as created in a separate build step or else print an error. That way you can do "setup.py build" followed by "setup.py install --skip-build" and you only have one build taking place.
The purpose of this would be to allow build to take place on a separate computer to install. Currently I do this on Vista because MSVC 2003 is not recommended or supported, and distutils won't use the installed MSVC 2005. So I do the build on a (virtual) XP machine and then install by hand for lack of this option. I think Vista is a strong enough use case to justify adding this feature. ---------- components: Distutils messages: 59836 nosy: Eloff severity: normal status: open title: Distutils add ability to skip build [Feature Request] versions: Python 3.0 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1815> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
