Hi, I am pleased to announce a new release of bento, a packaging solution for python which aims at reproducibility, extensibility and simplicity. It supports every python version from 2.4 to 3.2. You can take a look at its main features on Bento's main page (http://cournape.github.com/Bento). The main features of this 0.0.6 release are: - Completely revamped distutils compatibility layer: it is now a thin layer around bento infrastructure, so that most bento packages should be pip-installable, while still keeping bento customization capabilities. - Build directory is now customizable through bentomaker with --build-directory option - Out of tree builds support (i.e. running bento in a directory which does not contain bento.info), with global --bento-info option - Hook File can now be specified in recursed bento.info - Preliminary support for .mpkg (Mac OS X native packaging) - More consistent API for extension/compiled library build registration - Both numpy and scipy can now be built with bento + waf as a build backend Bento is discussed on the bento mailing list (http://librelist.com/browser/bento). cheers, David