[Distutils] Proposed bdist_dumb fix

[Andrew MacIntyre]

> From: Thomas Heller [mailto:theller@python.net]
> Sent: Friday, 22 November 2002 7:45 AM
> To: akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
> Cc: distutils-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Proposed bdist_dumb fix
> 
> 
> > >I has to use '--from-root 0' command-line flag, is it 
> supposed to work this way,
> > >needing an argument?
> > 
> > Well, if we want to stay backward compatible with the old behaviour,
> > from-root has to default to true, so you need to supply an 
> argument of
> > 0 to turn it off.  Do we feel comfortable changing the default to
> > false?  (I don't have a problem with that, and have done so in the
> > revised patch.)  Or we could turn the option around and have it be 
> > a --relative option instead.
> I don't care too much - won't use it anyway. Otherwise I 
> would probably
> like --relative more.
> 
> What surprised me is that you have to supply an argument to a boolean
> option. bdist_wininst has a --keep-temp boolean flag, but this doesn't
> need an argument. Neither does --verbose or --quiet.

I recall someone (MAL?) not wanting the default changed.  I think 
I prefer the --relative approach.

Is your revised patch accessible somewhere?  I'd like check it out on 
OS/2 when I get home.

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