From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 02:02:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added a self-berating command relating to installation directories for
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~1090
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba3f108ec08116adec36471c7d0e5dbfcb97def2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

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 54b81879a566..01ea0052e6c2 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: