[Distutils] A prefix option?

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>I think we need a simple way to handle custom directories that is:
>>
>>- cross platform
>>
>>- doesn't require modifying the Python install
>>
>>- allows chained/multile custom directories, which means the trick
>>  of putting eggs and scripts in the same directory doesn't work,
> 
> 
> PYTHONPATH-based installs allow all of this, as long as you add the 
> setuptools .egg to PYTHONPATH.

Would putting sys.path manipulations directly into the generated scripts 
handle all these issues, then?  Including the Windows problem of 
environmental variables being hard to access.


>>It appears that this has something to do with your plugin proposal.
> 
> 
> Not that I'm aware of, actually.  The plugin facility is intended for an 
> "application instance" path, distinct from a general/global installation 
> location.

Aren't we talking about setting up application instance paths here, 
except where the application is Python itself?


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