I have put a few patches up on the SourceForge patch manager. The first patch prunes CVS files and directories from source distributions. (Making a source distribution of the Distutils was failing because it kept putting 'misc/CVS' into MANIFEST. Of course, this wouldn't effect somebody who wasn't using the CVS Distutils.) The second patch fixes a problem that you could not build source distributions for packages that use the old-style way of specifying extensions. The third patch is for the examples directory. It updates the pil and xml setup scripts to use new-style extensions and fixes a bug in the mxDateTime setup script (which uses new-style extensions but did not import the Extension class.) -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware