[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/inst - configure.py:1.5

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Tres Seaver writes:
 > This violates "least surprise" a bit:  most people doing ./configure &&
 > make' *expect* to see lots of output streaming by.  In particular, the
 > '-q' option suppresses compiler warnings, which is not a good thing for
 > people building on less common platforms, for whom such warnings are
 > important "spoor" when backtracking a bandersnatch.

Yeah, Chris convinced me of this yesterday, but I was supposed to be
giving the kids a bath at the time.  I've now reverted the change; to
tell distutils to shut up, the user needs to specifically pass the
--quiet option to configure.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation