and is available from PyPI. The latest bootstrap script is at: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py And updated HTML documentation is available at: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools (developers/deployers) http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall (administrators/users) http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources (runtime reference) There are way too many new features to list coherently, but some highlights include better support for non-root installs, RPM support, performance enhancements, a new "entry point" system for linking plugins to extensible apps and frameworks, a lot more documentation, and more than a few bug fixes. Please send questions, comments, and bug reports to distutils-sig@python.org.