[Distutils] Proposed bdist_dumb fix

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:28:28PM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
>This will work, and should also work on other platforms if I understand
>the docs for splitdrive() correctly.

Incorporated in an updated version of the patch; thanks!

>I has to use '--from-root 0' command-line flag, is it supposed to work this way,
>needing an argument?

Well, if we want to stay backward compatible with the old behaviour,
from-root has to default to true, so you need to supply an argument of
0 to turn it off.  Do we feel comfortable changing the default to
false?  (I don't have a problem with that, and have done so in the
revised patch.)  Or we could turn the option around and have it be 
a --relative option instead.

>The paths in the zip then start with 'Lib/site-packages' and
>'Scripts'.  Haven't yet tried older python versions, where
>Lib/site-packages was not yet used, see PEP 250.

>From my reading of the Windows installation schemes at the top 
of commands/install.py, it should also be fine there.

--amk