From: Moore, Paul [mailto:Paul.Moore@atosorigin.com]
Having waited a few days to let the dust settle, I believe that the following is the current state of affairs:
1. The change to site.py, to include site-packages in sys.path, is in. 2. The change to distutils.sysconfig to change to site-packages, is in.
Urk. I just downloaded 2.2a1, and the sysconfig.py change isn't in :-( Attached are a couple of possible patches - one which just tweaks Windows (os.name is 'nt' for Win9x???) and another which tries to slim down on the platform-specific special casing, but which may have larger effects on non-Windows platforms. Can someone put one of these in? Thanks, Paul. Trivial version of the change: --- sysconfig.py.orig Sat Jul 07 23:55:28 2001 +++ sysconfig.py Wed Jul 18 15:13:45 2001 @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ if standard_lib: return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") else: - return prefix + return os.path.join(libpython, "site-packages") elif os.name == "mac": if plat_specific: Better version, which covers all platforms (but which removes a couple of "OK, where DO site-specific modules go on the Mac?" errors, which may be glossing over an issue...) is --- sysconfig.py.orig Sat Jul 07 23:55:28 2001 +++ sysconfig.py Wed Jul 18 15:18:55 2001 @@ -80,35 +80,23 @@ if os.name == "posix": libpython = os.path.join(prefix, "lib", "python" + sys.version[:3]) - if standard_lib: - return libpython - else: - return os.path.join(libpython, "site-packages") - elif os.name == "nt": - if standard_lib: - return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") - else: - return prefix - + libpython = os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") elif os.name == "mac": if plat_specific: - if standard_lib: - return os.path.join(EXEC_PREFIX, "Mac", "Plugins") - else: - raise DistutilsPlatformError, \ - "OK, where DO site-specific extensions go on the Mac?" + libpython = os.path.join(EXEC_PREFIX, "Mac", "Plugins") else: - if standard_lib: - return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") - else: - raise DistutilsPlatformError, \ - "OK, where DO site-specific modules go on the Mac?" + libpython = os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") else: raise DistutilsPlatformError, \ ("I don't know where Python installs its library " + "on platform '%s'") % os.name + if standard_lib: + return libpython + else: + return os.path.join(libpython, "site-packages") + # get_python_lib()