Adopt distutils.dist.Distribution._set_command_options to support better string detection.

setuptools/dist.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import distutils.dist
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsOptionError
 from distutils.util import strtobool
 from distutils.debug import DEBUG
+from distutils.fancy_getopt import translate_longopt
 import itertools
 
 from collections import defaultdict
@@ -626,6 +627,53 @@ class Distribution(_Distribution):
                 except ValueError as msg:
                     raise DistutilsOptionError(msg)
 
+    def _set_command_options(self, command_obj, option_dict=None):
+        """
+        Set the options for 'command_obj' from 'option_dict'.  Basically
+        this means copying elements of a dictionary ('option_dict') to
+        attributes of an instance ('command').
+
+        'command_obj' must be a Command instance.  If 'option_dict' is not
+        supplied, uses the standard option dictionary for this command
+        (from 'self.command_options').
+
+        (Adopted from distutils.dist.Distribution._set_command_options)
+        """
+        command_name = command_obj.get_command_name()
+        if option_dict is None:
+            option_dict = self.get_option_dict(command_name)
+
+        if DEBUG:
+            self.announce("  setting options for '%s' command:" % command_name)
+        for (option, (source, value)) in option_dict.items():
+            if DEBUG:
+                self.announce("    %s = %s (from %s)" % (option, value,
+                                                         source))
+            try:
+                bool_opts = [translate_longopt(o)
+                             for o in command_obj.boolean_options]
+            except AttributeError:
+                bool_opts = []
+            try:
+                neg_opt = command_obj.negative_opt
+            except AttributeError:
+                neg_opt = {}
+
+            try:
+                is_string = isinstance(value, str)
+                if option in neg_opt and is_string:
+                    setattr(command_obj, neg_opt[option], not strtobool(value))
+                elif option in bool_opts and is_string:
+                    setattr(command_obj, option, strtobool(value))
+                elif hasattr(command_obj, option):
+                    setattr(command_obj, option, value)
+                else:
+                    raise DistutilsOptionError(
+                        "error in %s: command '%s' has no such option '%s'"
+                        % (source, command_name, option))
+            except ValueError as msg:
+                raise DistutilsOptionError(msg)
+
     def parse_config_files(self, filenames=None, ignore_option_errors=False):
         """Parses configuration files from various levels
         and loads configuration.