Sat Nov 15 12:05:01 MST 2008  zooko@zooko.com
  * change exception into warning when target install dir isn't pth-capable
  This eases the common use case of "./setup.py install --prefix=foo" 
  followed by some other mechanism to make sure that ./foo/... is 
  importable, and makes setuptools behave more like distutils in this regard.
  
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 10:08:18.000000000 -0700
+++ new-dw-0.6c9+zookopatches/setuptools/command/easy_install.py	2008-11-21 10:08:19.000000000 -0700
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
 
         if not is_site_dir and not self.multi_version:
             # Can't install non-multi to non-site dir
-            raise DistutilsError(self.no_default_version_msg())
+            log.warn(self.no_default_version_msg())
 
         if is_site_dir:
             if self.pth_file is None:
@@ -1059,7 +1059,9 @@
 
   http://peak.telecommunity.com/EasyInstall.html#custom-installation-locations
 
-Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.""" % (
+Proceeding to install.  Please remember that unless you make one of
+these changes you will not be able to run the installed code.
+""" % (
         self.install_dir, os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH','')
     )