[Distutils] install --dry-run broken?

[Greg Ewing]

P.J. Eby wrote:
> The problem is that the build is also a dry run, 
> so the files aren't there for the later bits to actually copy.

That's not a problem for me, because I'm not trying to
find out what will get copied. I only use --dry-run to
exercise my setup.py code to make sure it doesn't crash.

Please don't take this functionality away just because
of some other functionality that it doesn't provide.

-- 
Greg