Hi All, Here's a package installation error message that's just plain scary for the average user. imho Distutils should have checks to stock packages requiring a C compiler from being uploaded. It isn't "right" to expect that from users. ie They should get the .pyd files. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running installer ... C:\Python25\scripts\easy_install.exe appscript Searching for appscript Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/appscript/ Reading http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html Reading http://appscript.sourceforge.net Best match: appscript 0.19.0 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/appscript/appscript-0.19.0.tar.gz#m... Processing appscript-0.19.0.tar.gz Running appscript-0.19.0\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\docume~1\david\locals~1\temp\easy_install-lte00e\appscript-0.19.0\egg-dist-tmp-jw2svy ERRORS: error: Setup script exited with error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003; extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries. Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin installed, you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.