[issue1815] Distutils add ability to skip build [Feature Request]

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: right, nothing to fix here, the feature is available -- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue1815] Distutils add ability to skip build [Feature Request]

Akira Kitada added the comment: Python 3.0 has --skip-build, too. Can we close this ticket? -- nosy: +akitada, tarek ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue1815] Distutils add ability to skip build [Feature Request]

Christian Heimes added the comment: Python 2.5's distutils has a --skip-build option for the install command. In which way doesn't it solve your use case? For Windows I recommend MinGW32 as compiler. It's sufficient for most users. -- nosy: +tiran priority: -> low type: -> rfe _

[issue1815] Distutils add ability to skip build [Feature Request]

New submission from Daniel Eloff: There seems to be no way to skip the build step when running "setup.py install" The behavior in such a case should be to skip build and use the existing binaries as created in a separate build step or else print an error. That way you can do "setup.py build" foll