[Distutils] Doc tweak: home dirs on Windows

[Greg Ward]

Hi all --

I'm working on polishing and finishing up the "Installing Python
Modules" manual, and I notice the following sentence:

  Since Windows has no conception of a user's home directory, and since
  the standard Python installation under Windows is simpler than that
  under Unix, there's no point in having separate \longprogramopt{prefix}
  and \longprogramopt{home} options.

(Please excuse the LaTeX markup!)

My understanding, gleaned from a rather involved discussion on
python-dev some months ago is that this is not entirely true.  Thus, I
propose changing this to sentence to:

  Since Windows has only a vague and fuzzy notion of a user's home
  directory, and the exact definition varies across different Windows
  versions, the \command{install} command makes no attempt to figure out
  a home directory.  There's no point in having separate
  \longprogramopt{prefix} and \longprogramopt{home} options, so
  only \longprogramopt{prefix} is supported.

That's my understanding of the situation.  Does this sound right to
everyone?

        Greg
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