From: Bastian Kleineidam [mailto:calvin@cs.uni-sb.de]

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it seems like this type of stuff hasn't been nailed down yet? It has been nailed down. Distutils has installation "schemes". Modules are installed per default in the sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix directories. Also we have default prefix directories for data files and scripts.

Look at http://www.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-February/001181.html for a complete overview.

Thanks, I hadn't seen that. I'd downloaded the list archive, but 1600 messages is a lot to get through... In which case, I think what I'd say is that the Windows setup (default installation directory is the Python application directory) isn't what I'd like. But it looks like I may have to persuade Guido over that... (Actually, there's a thread going on comp.lang.python on this topic, so I'll go and see what's happening in that). Paul.