Hi all -- I've finally thrown together Distutils 0.9.1. This fixes all bugs that were reported in Distutils 0.9, as well as a one long-standing bug that nobody reported (and I only discovered myself this morning, putting together the release!). Also includes a bunch of work by Rene Liebscher cleaning up/reorganizing extension-building on Windows. Here's the real change log: * added --dist-dir option to the sdist and bdist commands, to control where output files are put; all default to the "dist" directory * factored a bunch of code out of the "sdist" command, which will hopefully make it easier to use its nifty "file list template" features used in other places (thanks to Rene Liebscher) * general cleanup/improvement of compiling extensions with non- Microsoft compilers under Windows (Rene Liebscher): - fixed Borland C++ interface so it works - better handling of different GCC versions under Windows * fixed a bunch of little bugs (thanks to various people) * some documentation work: added "Describing extensions" section to the "Distributing Python Modules" manual * fixed a long-standing bug in the "build_py" command that prevented "bdist_rpm" from working in certain cases It's available from http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/download.html as a source tarball, source ZIP file, source RPM, built RPM, and Windows installer. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange / CNRI voice: +1-703-262-5376 Reston, Virginia, USA fax: +1-703-262-5367