Hi Vernon,
A little of both, actually - we have a copy of the Python stdlib, and
there are some modifications to it, but the goal is to stay as close
as possible to the CPython stdlib.
If you supply a patch upstream, I'll apply it to our copy because it
affects us more than CPython, and it likely
Jeff:
You are right to close this bug -- I made a bad report based on an
incorrect assumption. But I would not have been led astray if the error
message had not been so obscure. It should SAY just exactly what you said:
elevation is required. IMHO the distutils error reporting should be
