Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
> 
>> The question pybuildir.txt apparently tries to solve is whether Python
>> is running from the build dir or not. It's not whether Python was
>> installed or not.
> 
> That's the same, for all we're concerned.
> But pybuilddir.txt does not only solve that problem. It also contains
> the path to extension modules generated by setup.py, so that sys.path
> can be setup appropriately at startup.

Would be easier to tell distutils to install the extensions
in a fixed name dir (instead of using a platform and version
in the name) and then use that getpath.c. distutils is pretty
flexible at that :-)