[Python-Dev] installing IDLE & other Tools

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Greg Ward wrote:

> Actually, lots of non-packagized modules get installed to site-packages
> -- they just wind up right in site-packages, rather than in a
> subdirectory of it.
> 
> I've always thought this directory was misnamed -- should have been
> "site-lib" or something.  Oh well.
> 
> For the record, the Distutils don't currently support the "application"
> model of installation that Guido wants.  It's on the (unofficial,
> notional, blue-sky) to-do list.

On a similar note, there's a discussion going on about this in 
debian-python@lists.debian.org (there are archives on the Debian
site)

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