[issue8501] --dry-run option doesn't work

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

Wow. I’m amazed to see that the majority of commands don’t even bother with dry-run. I’m changing the component to distutils2: This is between bug fix and new feature, your report is the first one, and it’s easier to hack on distutils2. When this is fixed, I’ll ask Tarek if we should backport it to distutils (probably not).

I’m adding the easy keyword to indicate that writing tests for the --dry-run behavior could be done by a beginner during a sprint or bug day.

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assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo
components: +Distutils2 -Distutils
dependencies: +distutils argument parsing is bogus
keywords: +easy
stage:  -> unit test needed
versions: +Python 2.5 -Python 3.3

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