[Distutils] Proposed bdist_dumb fix

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:05:25PM -0600, Steven Knight wrote:
>		_, t = os.path.splitdrive(t)
>		if os.path.isabs(t):
>		    t = t[1:]
>                archive_root = os.path.join(self.bdist_dir, t)
>
>Directly examining the first character loses on some systems.  Old MacOS
>path names use a leading separator (:) to specify a *relative* path
>name, for example.

Hm, so won't this code still be incorrect on the Mac?  Will it have to
be something like this?

    if os.path.isabs(t):
        if platform == 'macos':
            t = os.sep + t
        else:
            t = t[1:]

--amk