Python-2.1(Windows) Optional supproject build problems

[David LeBlanc]

All the projects say that needed 3rd party source headers are in 
..\..\<3rdPartySource>. For example, the include path for expat/xmlparse 
is "..\..\expat\xmlparse". However, the pcbuild/readme.txt files says to 
put them in as a sibling of PCbuild's parent directory - in the example 
given, "dist".

Alas, the grandparent (..\..) of PcBuild is "\" since I think most people 
are going to install to the root...

>From the PCbuild/readme.txt file:
"The following subprojects will generally NOT build out of the box.  They
wrap code Python doesn't control, and you'll need to download the base
packages first and unpack them into siblings of PCbuilds's parent
directory; for example, if your PCbuild is  .......\dist\src\PCbuild\,
unpack into new subdirectories of dist\."

As you can see from reading this, the parent directory of PCbuild is src, 
not dist.

Actually, when I read the readme.txt file, initially I was under the 
impresion that there should be a dist directory under Python-2.1. Didn't  
make a whole lot of sense to me at the time, but one never knows ;-)

My sugggestion would be to have a directory under Python-2.1 called 
"packages" which would be the parent directory of all 3rd party sources 
needed to compile the "optional" packages, and to fix the VC project 
files appropriately.

Dave LeBlanc