Folks, I just submitted a bug report (509288) that the path conversion that needs to be done for all pathnames, converting from URLs (or unix pathnames, depending on your point of view) to local convention is missing for package_dir. I've looked at it for a while, but the distutils architecture is simply too elusive for me: I wouldn't have a clue where to insert the conversion. I don't even understand how the setup() keyword argument gets passed on to the other layers of distutils. Could someone else have a look, please? This problem means the newest Numeric doesn't build on the Mac anymore. -- - Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> http://www.cwi.nl/~jack - - If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman -