This release fixes a couple of bugs that people reported in Distutils 0.8, as well as adding two nice features. Here's the change log... * added the meta-data display options: now you can run the setup script with --name, --author, --description, etc. and it will print out that information (thanks to Bastian Kleineidam for the original idea and patch) * thoroughly overhauled the distutils.fancy_getopt module to support those options * manifest template files can now take many filename patterns per line (thanks to Andrew Kuchling) * code cleanup: better and more consistent use of exceptions * building extensions should now work on AIX, thanks to a hack that fixes "./ld_so_aix" in Python's installed Makefile * fixed the "sample3" example to actually work (it hadn't been updated with the Great Renaming prior to release 0.8) Greg You'll find at the usual place: http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/download.html -- Greg Ward - programmer-at-large gward@ase.com http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I'm a nuclear submarine under the polar ice cap and I need a Kleenex!