Hi all, I am pleased to announce the release of Distribute 0.6. Distribute is a friendly fork of the Setuptools project. You can get more info, download it and install it using the instructions from its PyPI page : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute --- CHANGES (compared to setuptools 0.6c9) : setuptools * Packages required at build time where not fully present at install time. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/12. * Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/10. * Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/7. * sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/6. * Immediately close all file handles. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3. * Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/1. pkg_resources * Avoid a call to /usr/bin/sw_vers on OSX and use the official platform API instead. Based on a patch from ronaldoussoren. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/5. * Fixed a SandboxViolation for mkdir that could occur in certain cases. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/13. * Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail gracefully. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/9. * Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/8. * Immediately close all file handles. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3. easy_install * Immediately close all file handles. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3. Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org