running distutils installer without admin on windows

[Thomas Heller]

"timothy.williams at nvl.army.mil" <timothy.williams at nvl.army.mil> writes:

> I didn't build the installer, someone else did. I did get the source
> and installed cygwin to see if I could recreate it; at least build the
> library, but when I tried to do a build_ext I got a message saying I
> needed to have the .NET SDK installed.

You could at least open the installer exe in winzip or a similar tool,
and unpack it manually to the site-packages directory.

Thomas

PS: I *think* that the distutils from newer Python versions (2.4.1 and
2.3.5) create installers that can also run without admin rights.