[Zope-Coders] silly windows request

[Guido van Rossum]

> > install-base
> > root
> > install-lib
> 
> I'm not sure.  The docs for distutils validate my use of "--prefix=" on
> Windows and the docs make no distinction between Win98 and WinNT/2k. 
> Under the circumstances, my best guess would be to change line 77 of the
> Makefile to:
> 
> 	"$(PYTHON)" inst\setup.py install --install-base="$(TARGET_DIR)"
> --install-purelib="lib\python" --install-platlib="lib\python"
> --install-data="lib\python" $(OPT_FLAGS)
> 
> If you get the chance, do you think you can try this and rerun "nmake
> install"?  I'll see if it works under NT...

Did you clean evrything out first?  This doesn't seem to create a
lib\python directory for me at all!

Which Python are you using?  I'm using 2.3.

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