Hi all, I am the package maintainer of python and a couple of python packages for the nslu2 optware platform, see http://www.nslu2-linux.org and http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/cross/ There were some distutils features I really appreciate: 1) setup.py install --prefix This allows us to install into a separate staging area. 2) setup.cfg [build_scripts] executable option 3) setup.cfg [build_ext] include-dirs, library-dirs and rpath options The new setuptools is all nice and easy for end user, but as a package maintainer, I'd like to have the option of building a binary package without all the dependencies. Is it possible? How about the above distutils features, are there any equivalent? Thanks in advance for any advice, -Brian Zhou