On Sat, 2010-30-01 at 15:42 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > If the package is designed to be installed by distutils, it seems obtuse > to expect it to work without using distutils. The point of distutils is It is useful to be able to run a package without installing it for development and testing. > to provide a build process for preparing the package for use; before > that, it's not ready for use. -- --gh