[Distutils] window 64bit madness

[Adam GROSZER]

Hello,

On 03/16/2011 11:47 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:28 AM 3/16/2011 +0100, Adam GROSZER wrote:
>> On 03/14/2011 07:50 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>>> Run "python -c 'import pkg_resources;print
>>> pkg_resources.get_build_platform()'" (with the Python interpreter you're
>>> using.
>>
>> D:\install>c:\Python26_64\python.exe
>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:13:38) [MSC v.1500 64 bit
>> (AMD64)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import pkg_resources;print pkg_resources.get_build_platform()
>> win-amd64
>> >>>
>
> Hm. What's sys.platform? Is it win32?
>
> I suspect the problem has to do with all the win32-specificness
> scattered through setuptools; I think I know what I need to do to fix it
> all, but it'll be a fairly substantial patch; can you help with the
> testing if I email you such a patch?

Here is a changeset for distribute that should give some idea what seems 
to make it work

https://bitbucket.org/agroszer/distribute-0.6/changeset/1d3923b865a6

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  Adam GROSZER
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