[Distutils] Windows absolute paths

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Peter Bienstman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> > Peter Bienstman wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble in getting Windows absolute paths like e.g d:\foo to
> > > work in distutils. They alway seem to be treated as a relative path...
> >
> > distutils uses Unix path names internally, i.e. / instead of \.
> 
> Actually, it's not that simple.
> 
> The following works, because setup.py lives in d:\bar
> 
> ../foo
> 
> None of these work:
> 
> D:/foo
> /D:/foo
> //D:/foo
> D:\foo
> \D:\foo
> \\D:\foo

Why would you want to put drive letters into the paths ?
BTW, would '../d:/foo' work ? and if not, what's the
error message you get ?

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