[Distutils] Extending distutils with 3rd party build commands?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:23 PM 10/22/04 -0400, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>I need an editable file in a system-wide directory such as site-packages 
>that isn't "owned" by the Python installation.  Even if this were the 
>case, it would be a real pain to implement, because it would have to be 
>done as a very careful postflight script that merges the user's current 
>config file with the necessary additions (in this case, make sure to 
>preserve anything else in the command-packages list if there is one).

So tell your users to use the command line option, and also tell 'em about 
the files they can edit if they're interested.