Steve Dower added the comment:
Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being
closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered
for distutils.
If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and
reopen it. If y
New submission from Charles P :
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/distutils/util.py#L106-L131
Due to the split('/') and os.path.join(), this function converts an absolute
path of the form "C:/foobar" into a relative "C:foobar", which is likely to be
entirely different
Usecase
