I use this patch in ActivePython to get distutils to find
Martin v. Löwis wrote: the correct
PCbuild dir (see attached).
Would you like to commit this to 2.6? (or perhaps 2.5 even?)
Sure, if others think it is a good thing. Will do tomorrow unless I hear a -1 before then.
I'm not quite a '-1', but am a little confused about where this would leave us. To some extent, this would formalize PCBuild8 and VC6 directories. External tools would then slowly start growing support for these additional directories and the previous benefits of "PCBuild is the canonical location" appear to vanish. Further, I expect that such a patch would confuse any attempts to manually copy from PCBuild8 into PCBuild, for example (ie, some tools knowing about PCBuild8 while others assume PCBuild is likely to get confusing.) Trent: I assume you use the same source tree for multiple platforms and compilers, meaning that changing these "optional" build processes to copy from PCBuild8/VC6 into PCBuild would cause pain? If not, do you think that would be a reasonable solution? Cheers, Mark