Another problem I ran into with distutils is that while most pathnames follow the local machine convention so do not. More precisely, the source files and such that the package developer put in their setup.py file are passed along unmodified. For now I've put in a heuristic that will convert pathnames from unix-format to mac-format if they contain a / and do not contain a :, but in the long run it's probably better if it's specified in what form pathnames in setup.py should be, and have the core of distutils convert them. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm