On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:46:13 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: > >> I was surprised a couple of days ago when trying to assist a colleage with >> his python setup on a ubuntu 9.04 system. >> >> We built our c-extensions and manually copied them into place, but >> site-packages wasn't there. It seems that ubuntu now wants stuff to go >> into lib/python2.6/dist-packages. ...
> I don't know much about the atrocities distributions commit to > python-installations (ripping out distutils "because it's a developer-only > thing", Well, if you are thinking about Debian Linux, it's not as much "ripping out" as "splitting into a separate package with a non-obvious name". Annoying at times, but hardly an atrocity. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
