Dulwich C extensions and stand-alone Windows installation of bzr

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:36:23 +0200
> From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl>
> Cc: Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>, bialix at ukr.net,
>         bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> >       [build]
> >       compiler = mingw32
> 
> >     This can be added either to %HOME%\pydistutils.cfg file (assuming
> >     you have HOME defined) or to the Lib\distutils\distitils.cfg file
> >     under the main Python installation directory.  I did the former.
> >     If the configuration file does not exist, create it.
> 
> Is there a reason you can't just run "python setup.py install" after this, as
> the final step, perhaps specifying a different --root ?

Maybe, I didn't try that.  The distutils documentation page doesn't
document this switch, and "setup.py --help" says just this:

  --root              install everything relative to this alternate root
                      directory

which of course is indecipherable for someone whose knowledge of
Python conventions is nil.  And since it was just a matter of copying
3 files...

It's possible that if the Makefile mentioned this switch I would have
tried harder, though.