[Distutils] RE: [Python-Dev] PEP 250 - site-packages on Windows: (Was: [Distu tils] Package DB: strawman PEP)

Trent Mick trentm@ActiveState.com
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:08:58 -0700


On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:02:28AM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote:
> From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal@lemburg.com]
> > I don't have a site-packages dir in my installations. Could it be that
> > you installed some distutils package which automagically created one 
> > or that this change in Python 2.1.1 ?
> 
> I don't believe so. I have ActiveState Python - it's possible (although
> unlikely, I would think) that that version creates site-packages specially.

The ActivePython 2.1 installer *does* create <installdir>\Lib\site-packages
on Windows.


Trent

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