Thanks to Jeremy Hylton for sending this my way: looks like the Tcl crowd have also realized that a standard way to build and distribute extensions is a Good Thing. See: http://www.scriptics.com/tea-summit/index.html One more fire under the collective bottom of the Distutils SIG (which is NOT dead, it just smells funny). Stay tuned for impending developments. Or subscribe to distutils-checkins; with luck there will be a flurry of activity there in the next week or so: http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-checkins Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 x287 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913