cpython/Lib/distutils
Greg Ward 9d17a7ad6d Patch from Rene Liebscher: this adds "--help-foo" options to list the
values that "--foo" can take for various commands: eg. what formats for
"sdist" and "bdist", what compilers for "build_ext" and "build_clib".

I have *not* reviewed this patch; I'm checking it in as-is because it also
fixes a paper-bag-over-head bug in bdist.py, and because I won't have
time to review it properly for several days: so someone else can
test it for me, instead!
2000-06-07 03:00:06 +00:00
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command Patch from Rene Liebscher: this adds "--help-foo" options to list the 2000-06-07 03:00:06 +00:00
README This little note is to clarify things for people who go poking around the 2000-04-09 02:31:45 +00:00
__init__.py Bumped version number to 0.9pre (there will be a couple of code snapshots 2000-06-02 02:23:42 +00:00
archive_util.py Patch from Rene Liebscher: this adds "--help-foo" options to list the 2000-06-07 03:00:06 +00:00
ccompiler.py Patch from Rene Liebscher: this adds "--help-foo" options to list the 2000-06-07 03:00:06 +00:00
cmd.py Added the 'ensure_*' methods from bdist_rpm; refactored 'ensure_filename()' 2000-06-04 14:21:28 +00:00
core.py Catch DistutilSetupError from the Distribution constructor. 2000-06-03 01:02:06 +00:00
dep_util.py Reorganization: ripped util.py to shreds, creating in the process: 2000-04-04 02:05:59 +00:00
dir_util.py 'mkpath()' now detects non-string 'name' arguments -- this is a fairly common 2000-05-27 01:35:27 +00:00
dist.py Patch from Rene Liebscher: this adds "--help-foo" options to list the 2000-06-07 03:00:06 +00:00
errors.py Moved the CCompiler exceptions here, to avoid having to import ccompiler.py 2000-05-30 02:02:14 +00:00
extension.py Provides the Extension class, a nicer way to describe C/C++ extensions than 2000-05-31 01:05:35 +00:00
fancy_getopt.py Don't take advantage of OptionDummy's new "auto-initialization" feature 2000-05-23 03:53:10 +00:00
file_util.py Tweaked output of 'copy_file()': if copying to a new name, show the whole 2000-05-20 16:05:34 +00:00
msvccompiler.py Import exceptions from errors.py, not ccompiler.py. 2000-05-30 02:02:49 +00:00
spawn.py Duh, it helps if '_nt_quote_args()' actually returns the mutated list, 2000-03-26 21:47:00 +00:00
sysconfig.py Added a bunch of new globals in '_init_mac()' -- these will be needed to 2000-06-03 00:44:30 +00:00
text_file.py Added all documentation. 1999-09-29 13:03:32 +00:00
unixccompiler.py Import exceptions from errors.py, not ccompiler.py. 2000-05-30 02:02:49 +00:00
util.py Renamed 'native_path()' to 'convert_path()'. 2000-05-31 02:32:10 +00:00
version.py Initial checkin of distutils source files. 1998-12-18 22:00:30 +00:00

README

This directory contains only a subset of the Distutils, specifically the
Python modules in the 'distutils' and 'distutils.command' packages.
Technically, this is all you need to distribute and install Python modules
using the Distutils.  Most people will want some documentation and other
help, though.  Currently, everything can be found at the Distutils web page:

    http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/

From there you can access the latest documentation, or download a standalone
Distutils release that includes all the code in this directory, plus
documentation, test scripts, examples, etc.

The Distutils documentation isn't yet part of the standard Python
documentation set, but will be soon.

        Greg Ward (gward@python.net)

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