From: Thomas Heller [mailto:thomas.heller@ion-tof.com]

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I have a possible solution for this problem. [Description cut]

Sounds OK to me, but if I knew much about this area I'd have covered it in the PEP :-)

One question: Should sys.extinstallpath be set for all platforms? Cleanrly, nothing but Windows will use it at present, but is there a meaningful value it could have on other platforms? If so, exposing it uniformly seems sensible.

This must be answered by other people, I only use windows. If it would be exposed uniformly, probably distutils itself should also use it. Thomas