[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32 (original) (raw)

VanL van.lindberg at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 02:40:58 CET 2012

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

It's worth remembering Éric's point - distutils is frozen and changes are in theory not allowed. This part of the proposal is not possible without an exception to that ruling. Personally, I don't see how making this change could be a problem, but I'm definitely not an expert.

If distutils doesn't change, bdistwininst installers built using distutils rather than packaging will do the wrong thing with regard to this change. End users won't be able to tell how an installer has been built.

This is a good point. Who can make this call - Guido, or someone else?

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