Robert Kern wrote: > After all, it is trying to behave like a regular command line program > that interacts with users, not developers. This is easily overridable > for developers who are trying debug problems by setting the > environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG=1. This will make distutils just > give the traceback.
I did not know about that option, thanks. The last example I remember was python 2.6 breaking our mingw support: the raised exception was an empty message, so you got a "error:" as your error message when the exception was caught in setup. I am not sure it is better than a traceback: maybe distutils could separate between 'expected' and 'unexpected' exceptions to make this clearer. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
