[issue1109659] distutils argument parsing is bogus

[Éric Araujo]

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

Being able to write a global option after a command name seems a nice feature to me, and the implementation should be straightforward: The base Command class already adds some options like help to each subclass, it’s just a matter of adding verbose, quiet and dry-run and adapting distribution.

no-user-cfg would have to be special-cased: Giving this option to one command  would just pass it to the Distribution instance. Supporting per-command no-user-cfg would be overly complicated and not really useful.

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components: +Distutils2 -Distutils
versions: +Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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