At 07:30 AM 10/8/2007 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >At 01:48 AM 10/8/2007 -0400, The Cadet wrote: > >I checked the docs at > >http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall , but the only > >mention of ``--help-commands`` was in the 0.6a10 section where it said > >"Fixed the annoying --help-commands wart.". No idea what that means. > >The wart is that --help-commands is ever displayed in the first >place, because it's a distutils command that easy_install doesn't support. > >In other words, --help-commands really isn't a valid option to >easy_install; never was and never will be. However, it appears that >there is distutils code that was added in Python 2.5 that displays it >even when I'm trying to prevent it from doing so. (If you run >easy_install for Python 2.3 or 2.4, the --help-commands option >doesn't appear.) > >I'll look into suppressing the output from Python 2.5, especially >since it lists additional options that don't make sense for easy_install.
This is now fixed in SVN; you can use ``easy_install setuptools==dev06`` to get a copy. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
