[Distutils] distutils bug(?): using absolute path for --home , python 2.5 on windows

[Marvin]

OK, at least part of my confusion is the whole cygwin/not-cygwin thing.
I'm using distutils to install a package (PyGUI) like this:

PyGUI-1.7.2 $ c:/Python2.5/python setup.py install --home=c:/GUI-test-install

Initially I was giving --home=/cygdrive/c/GUI-test-install install (in the 
depths of some Makefile) and getting the 'cannot be absolute' message.  Fixing 
that path, though (as above), the problem is that it DOES install, but actually 
into a relative path, PyGUI-1.7.2/GUI-test-install

Isn't the whole point of --home to ALLOW an absolute path?

Note also that doing something analogous on linux (with an absolute path) works 
fine.

OK, and I've figured it out.  I need to give it a path c:\\GUI-test-install. 
Which is not shocking, but certainly it would be NICE if distutils could treat 
'/' and '\\' as synonyms -- the underlying windows API does back since DOS.

Never mind.  :-)

Here's some output with the still somewhat incorrect path for --home:

...
running install_lib
creating c:GUI-test-install
creating c:GUI-test-install\lib
creating c:GUI-test-install\lib\python
creating c:GUI-test-install\lib\python\GUI
creating c:GUI-test-install\lib\python\GUI\Cocoa
copying build\lib\GUI\Cocoa\Applications.py -> 
c:GUI-test-install\lib\python\GUI\Cocoa
...