hi! I am really confused about all the setuptools/distutils/distribute/distutils2/easy_install/pip situation, but still have a little frustration about writing your own command for python setup.py your_command_name. Right now, for example, babel package provides it's command:: python setup.py extract_messages To do that, the part:: [distutils.commands] extract_messages = babel.messages.frontend:extract_messages is ok, but what I dislike is the whole:: from distutils.cmd import Command class extract_messages(Command): # provide user_options and 3 more function implementations in here pass thing. I find it really implicit. I mean, how do I run the command extract_messages from python? Maybe implementation of command should be that it can be called from regular python code like:: extract_messages(my_custom_kwargs=here) ? -- jabber: k.bx@ya.ru