[Python-Dev] Distutils thoughts (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 12:54:37 CEST 2006

On 4/21/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> 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 "buildext" 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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