[Distutils] Re: [Python-Dev] Killing off bdist_dumb (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:16:46 +0100

mal wrote:

> if you decide to keep it in there, can you at least fix the > help text: >=20 > bdist create a built (binary) distribution =20 Hmm, I wonder why bdist is mentioned here: it's the base class driving all the other sub-commands. bdist doesn't do anything on its own.

have you tried it?

on the 2.2 unix install I have here, it builds a tar archive. from what I can tell, it's actually running the same code as bdist_dumb...

From the doc-string: =20 create a "dumb" built distribution -- i.e., just an archive to be unpacked under prefixorprefix or prefixorexecprefix.

which isn't true, obviously, since the archive contains absolute paths...