[Twisted-Python] "installing" Twisted?

[Michal Pasternak]

Frantisek Fuka [Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:40:09AM +0100]:
> What exactly is the difference between running "python setup.py" and 
> just copying the twisted/ directory to site-packages/ directory? I tried 
> installing Twisted on old server which has Python 2.2 - the first method 
> didn't work, the second did.

What exactly didn't work in the first method?

About setup.py, read at http://python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/module-distutils.html