[Distutils] Unable to write into TMP directory during installation

[anatoly techtonik]

Hello,

How come that packages are unable to write into TEMP directory during
installation?

>python -m easy_install gerald
...
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/gerald/gerald-0.4.1.zip#md5=1b29e97c0077282a26829693fb07dca1
Processing gerald-0.4.1.zip
Running gerald-0.4.1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-1jedvu\gerald-0.4.1\egg-dist-tmp-wg8yyn
error: SandboxViolation:
open('C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\gerald.log', 'a') {}

The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system
that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted.

This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not
support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup
script by hand.  Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall
maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available.

--
anatoly t.