[Zope-Coders] silly windows request

[Chris McDonough]

Thanks for the update... very helpful.

It's probably a case of needing to create a custom "install scheme" (in
distutils parlance).  I will mess around with it as time allows.

Thanks again,

- C


On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 21:46, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Well, at least I figured out why --prefix on Windows works differently
> with Python 2.1 and 2.2.  (Python 2.3 is like 2.2.)
> 
> On Windows, --prefix gives the "Python root directory".  This is
> typically something like C:\Python21 or C:\Python22.  This hasn't
> changed.
> 
> But what has changed is the preferred location for installing Python
> modules and packages.  In 2.1, the convention was to install modules
> directly in the Python root directory.  But in 2.2 and later, this has
> changed.  There's even a PEP about it (PEP 250).  The preferred place
> is in the site-packages directory, and this is a sub-subdirectory of
> the Lib subdirectory of the Python root directory.  IOW, it installs
> in C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages without a --prefix, and if you use
> --prefix C:\Zope\lib\python, it will install in
> C:\Zope\lib\python\Lib\site-packages.  Totally logical.
> 
> What I *don't* know is a way to make the Zope install go into the
> correct directory on Windows, independent of which Python's distutils
> you use.  I think you should be able to use some combination of --home
> and --install-data, but I'm not 100% sure; the distutils docs are, um,
> lacking...
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 
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