[Python-Dev] distutils & stderr
Greg Ward
gward@python.net
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:21:23 -0500
On 01 February 2002, Guido van Rossum said:
> I could see three levels at most:
>> - verbose, tells you about everything it could do
>> - default, only tells you about things it does and not about things it
> skips
>> - quiet, only tells you about errors
+1 from me.
The Distutils' current level of verbosity stems from my desire to see
exactly what was happening in the code at the development/debugging
stage. That's obsolete and should be fixed. I like Guido's idea.
Greg
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