On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:46:11 -0400, James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net> wrote: > Uh guys, I'm not sure if anyone here noticed, but Debian and Ubuntu > have switched to install their distribution-supplied python libraries > into: > /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/lib/dist-packages > and distutils by default will install into > /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages > > starting with python 2.6. > .. > Since that email says "Discussed this with Barry Warsaw and Martin v. > Loewis", I'd assume this change would be more widely known in the > distutils/python-dev community, but apparently not??
Forgive my ignorance... I'm working with 2.5 on ubuntu and didn't think to try 2.6... It's good to know that the problem is fixed in 2.6 but I still need to make things work for pythonpkgmgr on ubuntu py2.5 as 2.5 is the default for ubuntu 8.10. Take care David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
