[issue5070] Distutils should create install dir if needed

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: closing the issue since it's on setuptools side -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue5070] Distutils should create install dir if needed

Jean-Paul Calderone 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 sounds like this issu

[issue5070] Distutils should create install dir if needed

Andy Buckley 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? ___ Python tracker

[issue5070] Distutils should create install dir if needed

Changes by Tarek Ziadé : -- nosy: +tarek ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/

[issue5070] Distutils should create install dir if needed

Jean-Paul Calderone 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. -- nosy: +exarkun __

[issue5070] Distutils should create install dir if needed

New submission from Andy Buckley : 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 (other than by running P