Hi all -- as no doubt many of you are aware, the default behaviour for the "bdist" command is to create a "dumb" built distribution -- a /-relative tarball on Unix, and a prefix-relative ZIP file on Windows. I have at times had vague plans for making the Unix default whatever is sensible on the current platform: an RPM, a Debian package, a Free BSD package, a Solaris package, etc. etc. I propose two changes to this: * make a dumb tarball the permanent and everlasting default for Unix: I don't want to write code that attempts to figure out if the current system is RPM-based or Debian-based or uses some other packaging tool (and I'm not keen on adding Marc-André's über-"grok this platform" module -- it's just too big) * make "wininst" the default format on Windows; I'm not aware of any problems with this spiffy little self-installing ZIP file generator, so why the heck not make it the default? Any opinions? If not, I'll go ahead and make this change and check it in as soon as the Python 2.0b1 code freeze is lifted (err, if it isn't already...) Greg -- Greg Ward gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?