Hello I have done what's needed to be able install the current Distutils trunk version as a standalone package in a Python installation. I am not planning to publish it at this time but rather when 2.7/3.2 are about to be released. If you are interested in working with the lasted Distutils version, please install it and let me know how it goes ;) I have a cron that build the distribution every night: http://nightly.ziade.org/ Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org