Hello Here's a status of the current work waiting to be included in Distutils. (target: Python 2.7 and Python 3.2) I have created PEP 386 for the version comparison work, and gathered in it all the work related to version comparison, I am not an Fedora, Ubuntu, [put your os here] specialist and the PEP is in its early stage, so it needs your feedback of you see false statements, incomplete info or errrors. STATUS: - new PEP 386 | waiting for your feedback - http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/pep-0386.txt - PEP 376 | status : waiting for Phillip complementary feedback (and anyone else of course) - up-to-date PEP proposal : http://bitbucket.org/tarek/pep376/src/tip/docs/pep-0376 - up-to-date prototype code for pkgutil : http://bitbucket.org/tarek/pep376/src/tip/pkgutil.py - PEP 345 | status : waiting for PEP 386 validation Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org