"Moore, Paul" wrote: > > From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal@lemburg.com] > Tim Peters wrote: > > Umm, what am I missing? The change to site.py was so simple you could > have > > committed it yourself quicker than it took to write the above. I > committed > > it a few minutes ago. If something else is needed, someone else will have > > to do it (or explain it to me in detail so precise they could do it > themself > > 10x quicker <wink>). > > > Cool, but what about the changes needed in distutils to actually > > utilize the new directory and the changes to the Windows installer > > to create the directory at installation time ? > > The patch I sent along with the final version of the PEP included the > distutils change (it's only one line, but it's on the PC at home, so I can't > quote it here). I assume that the Python install should ensure that the > site-packages exists (it does at the moment) so I don't see a need for the > wininst installer to check. I don't have a site-packages dir in my installations. Could it be that you installed some distutils package which automagically created one or that this change in Python 2.1.1 ? > Paul. > > PS [After a quick rummage...] I *think* the following patch is what is > needed for distutils: I haven't tested it, though, so it would be better to > check the original version (which I did test...) > > --- sysconfig.py.orig Thu Apr 19 10:24:24 2001 > +++ sysconfig.py Thu Jul 12 09:32:34 2001 > @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ > > elif os.name == "nt": > if standard_lib: > - return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") > + return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages") > else: > return prefix This doesn't seem to do the trick: the Windows installer still installs the packages directly to \Python21. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Consulting & Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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