Could distutils be an alternative for autoconf + make combination? I'm rather new to distutils, but I looked distutils from this point of view yesterday and I think that with some changes distutils could be used as an building and installing system for applications also. Specially for python apps with extension modules that need to be compiled, this could be very useful. At least installing is a problem with the current distutils as it wants to install to PYTHONHOME. (Yes, this is a feature request, think about it.) -- Ilpo Nyyssönen # biny /* :-) */