[Zope-Coders] silly windows request

[Guido van Rossum]

> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:47, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > Yes, I officially give up trying to make portable batch files.
> > 
> > If you can tell me what the for loop tries to do, I could check in a
> > separate config98.bat that tries to do this.
> 
> Glutton for punishment, eh? ;-)
> 
> It tries to iterate over the lines in the tempfile python-for-zope.reg,
> which (hopefully!) contains the path to a Python interpreter on a line
> exactly like:
> 
> Python.exe=C:\Program Files\Python\python.exe
> 
> It should break apart this line and the FOUND_PYTHON batch file var
> should be set to "C:\Program Files\Python\python.exe".  The script
> should do the right thing thereafter.
> 
> Note that the configure.bat script should probably make user-visible
> note of the fact when its run that you can pass in the Python you wish
> to use by setting the PYTHON envvar in the shell before you run the
> configure.bat script:
> 
> PYTHON=c:\MyPython\python.exe
> 
> The registry-searching bit (and thus the bizarre for loop) will be
> skipped if this envvar is set.

Hm, I think I withdraw the offer.  It seems too messy.  And there's an
easy workaround in the comment (simply don't run the configure.bat
file :-).

> > I looked in c:\zope\lib\python.  It contains a subdir Lib, which
> > contains a subdir site-packages, which has all the Zope code.  Was
> > this intended?
> 
> No.  Bummer.  This must be due to differences between the interpretation
> of the "--prefix="  argument to "setup.py" between distutils on W2k and
> Win98 (see line 77 of the windows Makefile).  The intent of this line is
> to instruct distutils to install the stuff that's in the build tree's
> "lib/python" into the target dir's "lib/python".
> 
> The same thing is done on UNIX by passing "--home=" instead of
> "--prefix=", but on Windows, distutils doesn't support "--home=".  On
> Win2k, however, passing "--prefix=" does "the right thing" (maybe due to
> a bug?).  As a result under Win2k, the files end up in
> "$(TARGET_DIR)/lib/python", not
> "$(TARGET_DIR)/lib/python/Lib/site-packages" like on 98.  I'm not
> exactly sure how to fix this.  I'll need to dig into the distutils code.

Mayone one of these options will work better?

install-base
root
install-lib

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)