Distutils - Program Distribution

[Jens Thiede]

Pardon the silly question, but can one use distutils to install
somewhere other than site-packages, or is distutils only ment for this
kind of a job. I'd like to use it to make the distribution of my
programs simpler :)

Thanks for any good replies,

Jens.

[Martin v. Löwis]

Re: Distutils - Program Distribution

Jens Thiede wrote:
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> Pardon the silly question, but can one use distutils to install
> somewhere other than site-packages, or is distutils only ment for this
> kind of a job. I'd like to use it to make the distribution of my
> programs simpler :)[/color]

You can achieve nearly anything with distutils by subclassing the
commands. The more you deviate from the standard procedures, the
more code you have to put into the subclasses.

Regards,
Martin