[Distutils] Install a script to <prefix>/sbin instead of <prefix>/bin

[Michael Jansen]

On Thursday, December 05, 2013 06:37:39 PM Michael Jansen wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 12:33:22 PM Michael Jansen wrote:
> > > Changes to distutils itself are fairly pointless, since the earliest
> > > possible date for publication of any such changes is now as part of
> > > Python 3.5 in 2015. The sheer impracticality of that approach when
> > > plenty of people are still running Python 2.6 is why we're going
> > > through the somewhat painful exercise of decoupling the preferred
> > > build system from the standard library :)
> > > 
> > > So, at this point, the appropriate place to make such a change is in
> > > setuptools: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools
> > > 
> > > That will allow it to be made in a way that supports Python 2.6+,
> > > whereas a distutils change won't really help anyone.
> > 
> > A point well made :) . Will do that.
> 
> I made a proof of concept implementation (not ready to be merged) here

No one interested in that? Got no answer from the maintainers too.

Mike

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