[issue24591] offer option to suppress "clean --all" output relating to nonexistent dirs

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower  added the comment:

Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being 
closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered 
for distutils.

If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and 
reopen it. If you believe it still requires a fix, most likely the issue should 
be re-reported at https://github.com/pypa/setuptools

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[issue24591] offer option to suppress "clean --all" output relating to nonexistent dirs

[alanf]

New submission from alanf:

The command "setup.py clean --all" writes out information about nonexistent 
directories that the script tried to clean but couldn't find. Example:

'build/bdist.linux-x86_64' does not exist -- can't clean it
'build/scripts-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it

It would be better to suppress this output, or at least offer an option for 
suppressing it. This information serves no purpose to the user, except possibly 
to make him or her unnecessarily worried. (I know at least three developers on 
my team who wondered whether these lines indicated a problem when they tested 
our setup.py, which performs the equivalent of "clean --all" whenever "build" 
is run.) It's perfectly normal for these directories not to exist. The chance 
that you would have every possible such directory is close to zero.

There is a "quiet" option, but that's not what I want to use, since the other 
output issued by the command (that is, the removal of real directories) is 
informative.

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components: Distutils
messages: 246458
nosy: alanf, dstufft, eric.araujo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: offer option to suppress "clean --all" output relating to nonexistent 
dirs
type: enhancement

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