I checked in a new version of setup.py for Numerical that corresponds to Distutils-0.9. This is a modification of the setup_numpy.py that Greg has in Distutils. This version REQUIRES the new Distutils. If you install Distutils into 1.6a2, remember (which I didn't at first) to go delete the distutils directory in the Python library directory. If you don't you will get a message while running setup informing you that your Distutils must be updated. This CVS version also separates out LAPACK/BLAS so that using the "lite" version of the libraries supplied with numpy is now optional. A small attempt is made to find the library or the user can edit setup.py to set the locations if that fails. I have not tested this on Windows and I would bet it needs help; we probably won't cut a new Numerical release until this is resolved and Python 2.0 is out so that the needed version of Distutils is standard. Suggestions for improvements would be most welcome. Paul