[merge] look for plugins in arch-independent site directory (was Re:Bundling more plugins into bzrtools)

[Wichmann, Mats D]

bazaar-bounces at lists.canonical.com wrote:
>>  > But
>>  > better would be a fairly trivial patch to bzrlib.plugin to
>>  > add /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins to the
>>  default  > path. >
>> 
>> 
>> Excellent!  Patch against 1.2rc1 and tested with bzr-1.1 attached.
> 
> bb:tweak
> 
> Please be consistent with the rest of that file and don't use
> camelCaps variables. 
> 
> Will distutils always be available?  istr that it was previously only
> available in the python-dev package.  But on Hardy it is in python2.4
> and 2.5. 

FWIW, there are some distributions - suse comes to mind - that does
split out distutils.  I actually haven't checked for a while
if they're still doing that.