[Distutils] Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 250: Summary of comments

[Moore, Paul]

From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal@lemburg.com]
> Paul, note that your patches don't even touch install.py -- are 
> your sure that the patch to sysconfig.py suffices to have distutils
> install the extensions into site-packages on Windows ?

AAARGH! I guess you are right - I missed this somehow. I thought I'd
checked, but the grep I did must have missed this one.

I will attempt to sort out a patch which actually works. However, I should
point out:

1. I've never looked at the internals code for distutils in any detail, so I
can't be sure that what I'm doing is complete. Reviewers would be gratefully
received (Marc, both your comments and Thomas' have been very helpful in
this regard so far).

2. I can't do anything about bdist_wininst. I hope Thomas is listening, and
can offer some help here :-)

3. I'll have to do a patch against Python 2.1. I don't have 2.2a1 installed
yet.

4. I don't have a particularly large testbed of applications to check all
this - I'm working on my main machine, and I'll be in trouble if I break the
setup by indiscriminate hacking...

5. I'm totally reliant on someone else feeding my changes into the current
CVS. This is frustrating, to say the least. (I understand that people are
very busy - but I've already sent in one complete patch, along with the
final PEP, which didn't get applied - instead, the site.py part was
reimplemented, and the sysconfig.py part missed completely :-()

Anyway, I'll report back ASAP...

Paul.