[Distutils] Building a platform-independent dist?

[skip at pobox.com]

    Tarek> Notice that I'm interested in understanding how you got that
    Tarek> "local" in your bdist...

    Tarek> Is your python installed in "./Users/skip/local" ?

Well, /Users/skip/local.  I never install Python of any variety from source
anywhere close to the system locations (not even /usr/local).