Whatever it takes... God I really hope this does get re-solved now. So that VP plays well with IDLE, and distutils, and PyGeo, or whatever else edusigists might cook up.

Agreed. But there is essentially, within broad guidelines, what is recognized as a right way to distribute a Python 3rd party package. And what that standard is has evolved and become clearer and more broadly accepted over the past few years. I am purely a volunteer developer, working on my own. The VPython maintainers, have, or could have with a little effort, true resources. If there was the will to bring VPython into reasonable compliance - with distutils, for example - it could happen easily enough. I am somewhat paralyzed, because, for me it is a substantial effort - and it seems clear that VPython "official" will have to get there, and will eventually get there. When?. In the normal course, one would assume, if there not otherwise indications of unreasonableness. The simple fix of the overwrite of index.html - literarily involving 4 keystrokes - rejected based on reasoning that was convoluted in the extreme. Oh well. We'll see what we see. ART