> I'm making some progress in writing a Portfile for my project, but I'm stuck > on one point. The project's build script uses python distutils (which I'd be > happy to get rid of but that's not likely to happen soon). The build > commands, outside of MacPorts, are > > python setup.py build --3D > python setup.py install --3D --prefix=/some/installation/directory
Given that this is a distutils-based project, you should probably be using the python portgroup. <https://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.portgroup.html#reference.portgroup.python> At the very least, some of its settings will be useful to you, such as the default value set for destroot.destdir: <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/_resources/port1.0/group/python-1.0.tcl#L234> - Josh
