New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx : Here is a patch to create --prefix= subtree if it doesn't already exist and another patch to treat "that's not on the sys.path" as a warning instead of a hard error. This fixes one of the most common complaints that I heard when I asked a bunch of people who refused to use setuptools why they refused to use it. ---------- files: mkdir.patch.txt messages: 206 nosy: zooko priority: feature status: unread title: be more like distutils with regard to --prefix= Added file: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/file26/mkdir.patch.txt _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue54 _______________________________________________