[Python-Dev] PEP 250 - site-packages on Windows: (Was: [Distutils] Package DB: strawman PEP)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Moore, Paul" wrote:
> 
> From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal@lemburg.com]
> Tim Peters wrote:
> > Umm, what am I missing?  The change to site.py was so simple you could
> have
> > committed it yourself quicker than it took to write the above.  I
> committed
> > it a few minutes ago.  If something else is needed, someone else will have
> > to do it (or explain it to me in detail so precise they could do it
> themself
> > 10x quicker <wink>).
> 
> > Cool, but what about the changes needed in distutils to actually
> > utilize the new directory and the changes to the Windows installer
> > to create the directory at installation time ?
> 
> The patch I sent along with the final version of the PEP included the
> distutils change (it's only one line, but it's on the PC at home, so I can't
> quote it here). I assume that the Python install should ensure that the
> site-packages exists (it does at the moment) so I don't see a need for the
> wininst installer to check.

I don't have a site-packages dir in my installations. Could it be that
you installed some distutils package which automagically created one 
or that this change in Python 2.1.1 ?
 
> Paul.
> 
> PS [After a quick rummage...] I *think* the following patch is what is
> needed for distutils: I haven't tested it, though, so it would be better to
> check the original version (which I did test...)
> 
> --- sysconfig.py.orig   Thu Apr 19 10:24:24 2001
> +++ sysconfig.py        Thu Jul 12 09:32:34 2001
> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
> 
>      elif os.name == "nt":
>          if standard_lib:
> -            return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib")
> +            return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")
>          else:
>              return prefix

This doesn't seem to do the trick: the Windows installer still installs
the packages directly to \Python21.

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