I think there's now been enough time to ensure that no further issues are going to come out. I therefore enclose a patch, which should, I believe, capture all the issues. Note: 1. It is against the CVS version of distutils, as on 21/07/2001. (I found a way of getting CVS to work for me. Yay!) There are no changes needed to core Python, as the site.py change needed is in 2.2a1. 2. It covers Fred's issue of backward compatibility, by testing for sys.version being 2.2 or greater - otherwise the old behaviour is retained. 3. It does nothing for platforms other than Windows. I'll leave the Unix/Mac experts to decide if they want changes on their platforms. 4. I've tested it (relatively) minimally. It does install into site-packages with the 'install' command. (And as expected, it doesn't on Python 2.1 - until you remember to change the '2.2' to '2.1' in the code so that you can test it :-)) All that this needs is for someone to approve and apply this patch. Thomas? Would you be willing, given that you have made the necessary changes to the Windows Installer to match this? Thanks to all for the feedback. I've learned a lot, about distutils and the PEP process. I don't think I'll be so free with my "why doesn't Python do XXX" comments in future... (Maybe :-)) I'll go off and update the PEP now, to reflect what is (hopefully) the final resolution. Paul. diff -u sysconfig.py.orig sysconfig.py --- sysconfig.py.orig Wed Jul 18 19:39:56 2001 +++ sysconfig.py Sat Jul 21 16:38:36 2001 @@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ if standard_lib: return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") else: - return prefix + if sys.version < "2.2": + return prefix + else: + return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages") elif os.name == "mac": if plat_specific: diff -u command\install.py.orig command\install.py --- command\install.py.orig Tue Jan 16 16:16:03 2001 +++ command\install.py Sat Jul 21 16:41:15 2001 @@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ from distutils.errors import DistutilsOptionError from glob import glob +if sys.version < "2.2": + WINDOWS_SCHEME = { + 'purelib': '$base', + 'platlib': '$base', + 'headers': '$base/Include/$dist_name', + 'scripts': '$base/Scripts', + 'data' : '$base', + } +else: + WINDOWS_SCHEME = { + 'purelib': '$base/Lib/site-packages', + 'platlib': '$base/Lib/site-packages', + 'headers': '$base/Include/$dist_name', + 'scripts': '$base/Scripts', + 'data' : '$base', + } + INSTALL_SCHEMES = { 'unix_prefix': { 'purelib': '$base/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages', @@ -30,13 +47,7 @@ 'scripts': '$base/bin', 'data' : '$base', }, - 'nt': { - 'purelib': '$base', - 'platlib': '$base', - 'headers': '$base/Include/$dist_name', - 'scripts': '$base/Scripts', - 'data' : '$base', - }, + 'nt': WINDOWS_SCHEME, 'mac': { 'purelib': '$base/Lib/site-packages', 'platlib': '$base/Lib/site-packages',