Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:
closing the issue since it's on setuptools side
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New submission from Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org:
If you attempt to call python setup.py install --prefix=/foo, and
/foo/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages does not exist, the installation will
fail, requiring that the directory be made by hand.
Since there is no easy way to know in advance
Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com added the comment:
This isn't accurate. distutils *will* create the directory if it does
not exist. Perhaps you have setuptools installed? setuptools disables
this behavior of distutils and forces you to create the directory manually.
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Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org added the comment:
Thanks for the rapid feedback: yes, I am using setuptools and didn't
realise it would be responsible for this override. Is setuptools
feedback done completely independently from this tracker?
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Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com added the comment:
Yea. setuptools is often discussed on distutils-sig:
http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/
And has an issue tracker of its own:
http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/
http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue54
