distutils on windows, file placement

[Paul Moore]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:23:51 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:

>Syver Enstad wrote:
>
>> Distutils is great, it compiles, makes windows installers. cool stuff.
>> 
>> What I don't like about it is that it by default dumps modules and
>> packages straight into the python directory, which in my case is
>        ...
>> have something like site-packages or whatever, that is in sys.path by
>
>That's what distutils do for me, in Python 2.2 -- put stuff in
>site-packages.  I do recall it didn't work that way in 2.1, on
>Windows, but isn't this already fixed?

Yup. Fixed in Python 2.2. For details see PEP 250.

Glad you like it :-)

Paul.