On 4/21/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While we're on the subject of distutils revision, here
> are a few things I've encountered about distutils which
> seem less than desirable.
>
> * There doesn't seem to be a way of supplying options
> on the command line for anything except the top-level
> command. Sometimes, e.g. I want to do an "install" but
> override some options for the "build_ext" that gets
> invoked by the install. But distutils won't let me,
> because those options are not recognised by the
> "install" command itself.
I do things like
python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst
which seem to work for me. Is that any help?
Paul.
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