Sat Nov 15 12:04:20 MST 2008  zooko@zooko.com
  * try to mkdir the install directory
  This eases the common use case of "./setup.py install --prefix=somedir" 
  and makes setuptools behave more like distutils in this case.
diff -rN -u old-dw-0.6c9+zookopatches/setuptools/command/easy_install.py new-dw-0.6c9+zookopatches/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
--- old-dw-0.6c9+zookopatches/setuptools/command/easy_install.py	2008-11-21 10:08:09.000000000 -0700
+++ new-dw-0.6c9+zookopatches/setuptools/command/easy_install.py	2008-11-21 10:08:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -249,6 +249,14 @@
         instdir = normalize_path(self.install_dir)
         pth_file = os.path.join(instdir,'easy-install.pth')
 
+        # mkdir it if necessary
+        try:
+            os.makedirs(instdir)
+        except OSError:
+            # Oh well -- hopefully this error simply means that it is already there.
+            # If not the subsequent write test will identify the problem.
+            pass
+
         # Is it a configured, PYTHONPATH, implicit, or explicit site dir?
         is_site_dir = instdir in self.all_site_dirs