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authorGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2000-09-13 00:12:37 (GMT)
committerGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2000-09-13 00:12:37 (GMT)
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Fix install directories on Mac OS (now that the "install" command
does the right thing).
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@@ -545,22 +545,13 @@ users), and a fairly simple standard Python installation. Thus, only a
\longprogramopt{prefix} option is needed. It defines the installation
base, and files are installed under it as follows:
-\XXX{how do MacPython users run the interpreter with command-line args?}
-
-\installscheme{prefix}{:Lib}
- {prefix}{:Mac:PlugIns}
+\installscheme{prefix}{:Lib:site-packages}
+ {prefix}{:Lib:site-packages}
{prefix}{:Scripts}
{prefix}{:Data}
-\XXX{Corran Webster says: ``Modules are found in either \file{:Lib} or
-\file{:Mac:Lib}, while extensions usually go in
-\file{:Mac:PlugIns}''---does this mean that non-pure distributions should
-be divided between \file{:Mac:PlugIns} and \file{:Mac:Lib}? If so, that
-changes the granularity at which we care about modules: instead of
-``modules from pure distributions'' and ``modules from non-pure
-distributions'', it becomes ``modules from pure distributions'',
-``Python modules from non-pure distributions'', and ``extensions from
-non-pure distributions''. Is this necessary?!?}
+See section~\ref{platform-variations} for information on supplying
+command-line arguments to the setup script with MacPython.
\section{Custom Installation}