[Distutils] bdist_wininst

[Thomas Heller]

From: "Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com>
> > 
> > distutils on windows always installs to this directory. bdist or
> > otherwise. i don't see any need for change?
> 
> I asked this once before. I gather that it's a Guido-mandated standard. I
> dislike it intensely, however. I think that user-installed modules should be
> segregated from standard ones. The obvious place is
> <PythonDir>\Lib\site-packages. But that needs site.py to change to handle
> this directory on Windows, as well as on Unix (I see no logic to why it
> doesn't already). At the very least, <PythonDir>\Local would be better, with
> distutils creating the directory, and probably adding a Local.pth, if it
> doesn't already exist.
> 
> I hate this default so much that I *always* download sources, and do python
> setup.py build, and then install by hand. This is stupid.
> 
> At the absolute minimum, the install target should allow specifying an
> alternative target. And the wininst installer needs to offer the user a
> choice of install directory.
> 
wininst once had such an option. I removed it because of Greg's suggestion:

The developer can override it by using the 'extra_path'
option to the setup function.

Thomas