OK, I had an idea here: How about that the people affected by difficulties in getting software approved got together to put together not a sumo-python, but a python-extras package? That package could include all the popular stuff, like SciPy, Numpy, twisted, distribute, buildout, virtualenv, pip, pytz, PIL, openid, docutils, simplejson, nose, genshi, and tons of others. That would be a big download. But here's the trick: You don't *have* to install them! Just bundle all of it. If licensing is a problem I guess you'd need to have permission to relicense them all to the Python license, which would be problematic. But otherwise having a team of people overseeing and bundling all this might not be that much work, and you'd avoid the bloat by not installing all of it. :-) Or would this not fool the company trolls? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64