I've just put out another Distutils code snapshot; this fixes all problems with Distutils 0.8 that I have heard about. If I don't hear anything bad about this snapshot, it'll go out the door as 0.8.1, probably tomorrow (Wed April 19) evening. If you've had problems with 0.8, please download the snapshot and give it a try: http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/download.html#snapshot Come to think of it, if 0.8 worked for you, or if you haven't tried it yet, please give the snapshot a whirl. Thanks -- Greg -- Greg Ward - nerd gward@ase.com http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I had a lease on an OEDIPUS COMPLEX back in '81 ...