[Zope3-dev] Re: Core dump with z3

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 10:42, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Jeremy Hylton writes:
>  > Python 2.3 distutils supports this feature and setup.py has the
>  > necessary declarations to make them work.  Folks using Python 2.2 would
>  > probably benefit from installing the 2.3 distutils in their
>  > site-packages.
> 
> No, they won't.  site-packages is searched last, so it can't override
> the standard library.  It could be dropped into the top of the Zope
> source tree, next to the setup.py script; that would cause the imports
> to work right at least.

We already have machinery for doing stuff like this.  You should put
2.3's distutils in src/pythonlib/compat22.  setup.py probably doesn't
know to hack its path to point here though.

-Barry