[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/inst - setup.py:1.1.2.6

[Chris McDonough]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 15:28, Matt Behrens wrote:
> > Testing a custom installation scheme which prevents distutils
> > from trying to guess where to put our files.
> 
> OK, I'm a little confused, although this looks good on the surface,
> and was the route I should have taken from the beginning :-)

Geez, you did enough work. ;-)  I wouldn't have known where to start.

> Does this provide for stopping people from installing Zope into
> their Python prefix?  i.e. /usr/lib/python/...  Because that little
> bit of code that I put in there is no longer present.

No, you're right, it doesn't, but since the call to invoke it is
typically controlled by a Makefile (which always specifies --prefix or
--home), I think it's OK... does this make sense?

- C