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use doc_files in your setup.cfg file, or --doc_files filelist on the command line.

Thanks, I will try that.

2 remarks: * I typo'ed, it's '--doc-files' (with a dash) * this option does not handle directories, which really is sad. The 4Suite team has overcome this by providing an extension. I'm looking at their code right now, and it looks as if their extension package was really interesting. Is there any chance that it could be incorporated to a future distutils release, or released as a 4Suite spinoff from the fourthought site? Alexandre Fayolle -- http://www.logilab.com Narval is the first software agent available as free software (GPL). LOGILAB, Paris (France).