[PyKDE] suggestion for configure.py in PyQt-4.0beta1

[Phil Thompson]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 7:04 pm, Glen W. Mabey wrote:
> When employing the -d and -v flags, does the following seem reasonable?
> It makes it so that some pretty standard operations have a better chance
> of succeeding, like `import pyqtconfig'.
>
> Glen
>
>
> *** configure.py.orig	Wed May 24 11:16:13 2006
> --- configure.py	Wed May 24 11:17:09 2006
> ***************
> *** 994,1000 ****
>           elif opt == "-c":
>               opt_concat = 1
>           elif opt == "-d":
> !             opt_pyqtmoddir = os.path.abspath(arg)
>           elif opt == "-i":
>               opt_vendorcheck = 1
>           elif opt == "-j":
> --- 994,1000 ----
>           elif opt == "-c":
>               opt_concat = 1
>           elif opt == "-d":
> !             opt_pyqtmoddir = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(arg), "PyQt4")
>           elif opt == "-i":
>               opt_vendorcheck = 1
>           elif opt == "-j":
> ***************
> *** 1015,1021 ****
>           elif opt == "-u":
>               opt_debug = 1
>           elif opt == "-v":
> !             opt_pyqtsipdir = os.path.abspath(arg)
>           elif opt == "-w":
>               opt_verbose = 1
>
> --- 1015,1021 ----
>           elif opt == "-u":
>               opt_debug = 1
>           elif opt == "-v":
> !             opt_pyqtsipdir = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(arg), "PyQt4")
>           elif opt == "-w":
>               opt_verbose = 1

The whole point of flags like these is to give the user complete control over 
the configuration. There is no point in then imposing restrictions.

Phil