5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
9:14 p.m.
I would find it strange if a naive setup script would use different include and lib directories depending on whether win32all is installed or not.
I agree.
IIRC, distutils need to read the registry was the reason that the _winreg module was added to the Python core.
Maybe its time to add a distutils_util compiled extension for windows specific features (do I need a smiley here or not - not sure) ?
I think that exposing SHGetSpecialFolderPath() would be a valuable addition to the Python runtime, and I guess that inside distutils would be a reasonable place for it. Mark.