Disclaimer: I don't work at Google, just talk to people who do. I know some people at Google that would like to use Pylons there, unfortunately this isn't quite possible as several parts of Pylons require setuptools entry points. While setuptools can be installed, due to Google's packaging system the run-time setuptools environment has no entry points present, thus it falls down. I'm not sure how many other companies might also have their own packaging systems that also incur this problem, but I'm wondering if this can be remedied somehow. Is there a script that could be run manually before applications start that require entry points? Or some way setuptools itself can have some intelligence in it so that it can detect when its not in charge of the layout and read a manually configured file for entry point information instead? Thanks, Ben