[Image-SIG] Re: setup.py incompleat support of distutils
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Apr 20 13:28:00 EDT 2004
J C Lawrence wrote:
> The Python-pil 1.1.4 installer does not compleatly support distutils.
> Specifically (in my case) it wouldn't accept a `--prefix=/foo" command
> line argument to control the installation location. Adding:
>
> import distutils
>
> to setup.py fixed this.
hmm. that sure sounds like a bug in distutils (or in the documentation; all
examples use "from distutils.core import ..." which is exactly how it's done
in PIL's setup file).
anyway, I'll look into it.
thanks /F
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