Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 05:09 PM 1/3/2008 -0200, phil jones wrote:

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I take it there's nothing in distutils that can actually update the user's OS PATH?

Nope.

This may not help in the general case, but if you have a more specific, say customer delivery, issue then you might look at Enthought's open-source Enstaller app -- which is a wrapper around easy_install. It does support running of post-install scripts that do things like this, and goes even further on Windows where it can add start menu icons and registry entries.

Unfortunately, 'Enstaller' is still somewhat immature and the current version is way, way too bloated but we at Enthought are continuing to invest in it and we do use it already.

-- Dave