someone who knows Windows/MSVC++ to come along and add the right flags.
Comment noting that 'link_static_lib()' signature is inconsistent with
the other compiler classes (uh-oh!)
'--help-commands' option).
Shuffled imports around in a few command modules to avoid expensive
up-front import of sysconfig (and resulting delays in generating list
of all commands).
* "--help" can now come either before or after particular commands
to get help on and can give help on multiple commands, eg.
"--help install dist" gives help on those two commands
* added "--help-commands" option, implemented by the 'print_commands()'
and 'print_command_list()' methods
Added 'link_static_lib()' method, and 'archiver' and 'archiver_options'
class attributes to support it.
Added 'link_executable()' method, and 'ld_exec' instance attribute
to support it.
'newer_group()' is now able to handle missing files, so we don't have
to kludge it by catching OSError when calling it.
'object_filenames()' and 'shared_object_filename()' now take 'keep_dir'
flag parameters.
'library_filename()' and 'shared_library_filename()' now respect
a directory component in the library name.
Various comment updates/deletions.
Added 'nuke_release_tree()' method to blow away the directory from
which the archive file(s) are created, and call it (conditionally)
from 'make_distribution()'.
Added 'keep_tree' option (false by default) to disable the call to
'nuke_release_tree()'.
install) the setup script itself.
Fixed 'build_module()' so we do *not* preserve file mode (which means
we can install read-only files, which makes the next installation
of this distribution fail -- at least under Unix); added a comment
explaining this.
consistency with 'build_ext' command option.
Changed 'compile()' and 'link_shared_object()' so 'include_dirs',
'libraries', and 'library_dirs' can be lists or tuples.
'generate_help()', 'wrap_text()' functions, and a little tiny test
of 'wrap_text()'.
Changed how caller states that one option is the boolean opposite of
another: added 'negative_opt' parameter to 'fancy_getopt()', and changed
to use it instead of parsing long option name.
want no output. Still no option for a happy medium though.
Added "--help" global option.
Changed 'parse_command_line()' to recognize help options (both for the
whole distribution and per-command), and to distinguish "regular run"
and "user asked for help" by returning false in the latter case.
Also in 'parse_command_line()', detect invalid command name on command
line by catching DistutilsModuleError.
a 'negative_opt' class attribute right after 'global_options'; changed
how we call 'fancy_getopt()' accordingly.
Initialize 'maintainer' and 'maintainer_email' attributes to Distribution
to avoid AttributeError when 'author' and 'author_email' not defined.
Initialize 'help' attribute in Command constructor (to avoid
AttributeError when user *doesn't* ask for help).
In 'setup()':
* show usage message before dying when we catch DistutilsArgError
* only run commands if 'parse_command_line()' returned true (that
way, we exit immediately when a help option is found)
* catch KeyboardInterrupt and IOError from running commands
Bulked up usage message to show --help options.
Comment, docstring, and error message tweaks.
Bunch of little bug fixes that appeared in building non-packagized
distributions. Mainly:
- brain-slip typo in 'get_package_dir()'
- don't try to os.path.join() an empty path tuple -- it doesn't like it
- more type-safety in 'build_module()'
Now supports the full range of intended formats (tar, ztar, gztar, zip).
"-f" no longer a short option for "--formats" -- conflicts with new
global option "--force"!
Greg Ward