Okay, I love what I can do with distutils in windows - i.e. create a binary distribution of a module/package/etc But I have a few questions: If I write a script to generate all the details of the distribution - files list, etc - how do I force the script to make it into a binary distro? Do I modify the arguement list passed to the script to 'fake' that it was called with this? Cos I may well just want to run a script and have that as default behaviour. I have seen that there is the facility to build extension modules into the distro by actually building them from source - is it recommended to do it this way - what about including pre-built extensions? I have tried adding them to the 'data_files' option and it seems to work - although by default they don't end up where I would expect. Has anyone else played with that? I know you can change the bitmap displayed during the install but can you change the icon that is displayed for the *.exe that is generated? Well I think that is enough questions for now... -- Phil "Requirements - what are they I just hack something together that does what I think they want" ;)