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authorGreg Ward <gward@python.net>1999-07-10 02:02:31 +0000
committerGreg Ward <gward@python.net>1999-07-10 02:02:31 +0000
commitba3f108ec08116adec36471c7d0e5dbfcb97def2 (patch)
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parentccbb3f0ed4ea987cf7769bcb6709b2d8f1b450c6 (diff)
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Added a self-berating command relating to installation directories for
module distributions that contain platform-specific files.
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
index 54b81879a56..01ea0052e6c 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ class Install (Command):
# shared files, with no nice way to override it! (this
# might be a Python problem, though, not a Distutils
# problem...)
+
+ # NO: the way to fix this is
+ # * any platform-dependent files in distribution?
+ # yes: install under exec-prefix
+ # no: install under prefix
+ # ...which will require a pretty major rethink of all
+ # this. Damn.
+
self.install_site_platlib = \
os.path.join (self.install_lib, 'site-packages')
else: