Possible to install from CD using distutils?

[Martin v. Löwis]

bobsmith327 at hotmail.com (Bob Smith) writes:

> Hi.  I'm trying to distribute a Python package on a CD-ROM that gets
> installed using distutils.  The problem is that distutils attempts to
> write a new 'build' folder on the CD during the installation and fails
> (it of course can't write the to CD).  

You can use the --build-base option to change that directory.

Regards,
Martin