problem cloning large file (32MB) on Windows/Network Shares

[Steve Borho]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> On 2011-01-14 16:03, Steve Borho wrote:
>> A trick here is to use:
>>
>> python setup.py build_ext -i
>
> Interesting.
>
> Or using long options:
>
>  $ python setup.py build_ext --inplace
>
>> This compiles just the C extensions, in place where they belong.
>> It's the Windows version of "make local'.  It does not try to build
>> the locales, etc, which require gettext to be installed.
>
> I wondered how this could be discovered by people with some
> half-knowledge (like myself) and found this "path of discovery":

FWIW, my "path of discovery" was Mercurial's Makefile.

> Inside setup.py, at the beginning is a comment
>
>  # 'python setup.py --help' for more options
>
> So I did (in cmd.exe):
>
>  $ python setup.py --help
>  Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)
>  ...
>
>
>  $ python setup.py --help-commands
>  Standard commands:
>    build            build everything needed to install
>    build_py         "build" pure Python modules (copy to build directory)
>    build_ext        build C/C++ extensions (compile/link to build directory)
>  ...
>  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>     or: setup.py --help-commands
>     or: setup.py cmd --help
>
>
>  $ python setup.py build_ext --help
>  ...
>  Options for 'hgbuildext' command:
>    --build-lib (-b)     directory for compiled extension modules
>    --build-temp (-t)    directory for temporary files (build by-products)
>    --plat-name (-p)     platform name to cross-compile for, if supported
>                         (default: win32)
>    --inplace (-i)       ignore build-lib and put compiled extensions into the
>                         source directory alongside your pure Python modules
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-- 
Steve Borho