[Distutils] Installation directory

[Bastian Kleineidam]

Hi all,

>it is installed directly into the C:\Applications\Python20 directory, which
>is the Python installation directory. This is not what I would want,
>especially as the default action.
There was a somewhat lengthy discussion about installation dirs at the
beginning of the year, including some mighty words from Guido.
You can follow the discussion on the archives, here is a wrapup:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-February/001181.html
I think in most cases it boils down to installing things in sys.prefix and
sys.exec_prefix.

Nothing prevents you from using your custom install scheme though (with
--install-lib and such).


Bastian