[Distutils] mac distutils needs more work

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, "Pete Shinners" <pete@visionart.com> said:
> first, distutils on macos does not know where its own
> "site-packages" directory is. it actually asks the user
> where it is when installing. with all the talk recently
> on getting the install paths straightened out, i hope
> this gets cleaned up on the macos side.

This is the second report I hear of strange things with site-packages
with MacPython, but I have absolutely no idea what the problem
is. MacPython site-packages handling is identical to how unix does
it, and it lives in the exact same place. As I'm not experiencing this
problem I'd like to get into contact with people who have this
problem.

> the problem is that distutils cannot compile and libaries
> that require linking to other libraries. it is very close,
> but there are a couple "one-line" fixes needed to get it
> working.

I know about this problem, but (a) I have very little time and an
enormous todolist, and (b) I don't know of any reasonably simple
distutils-based packages that use the library (or application)
targets.

I posted a fairly detailed description to the pythonmac-sig yesterday
of what would be needed to get mac-distutils to build library and app
targets, if someone else could jump in that would be really nice...
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