[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32

Wed Mar 21 02:40:58 CET 2012

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> It's worth remembering Éric's point - distutils is frozen and changes
> are in theory not allowed. This part of the proposal is not possible
> without an exception to that ruling. Personally, I don't see how
> making this change could be a problem, but I'm definitely not an
> expert.
>> If distutils doesn't change, bdist_wininst installers built using
> distutils rather than packaging will do the wrong thing with regard to
> this change. End users won't be able to tell how an installer has been
> built.
>>
This is a good point. Who can make this call - Guido, or someone else? 
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