I've checked in Richard Jones's patches, so those of you who follow the Python CVS trunk can now play with the PEP 301 implementation. Changes: * The DistributionMetadata object and the setup() function now support 'classifiers' as a keyword. * The 'register' distutil command has been added to upload a package's metadata to the PyPI server. The registry is still running on my web server at amk.ca, a bandwidth-limited DSL line, but it'll be moved to something at python.org before too long. (Certainly before 2.3final ships!) Please bang on the distutils code in any way you can think of, filing bug reports and offering comments, so we can be sure that it's solid. You can comment on the web site, too, but the site can be updated independently of the Python code so there's less pressure to get it finished before 2.3final. Here's an example of how the new code works. A setup.py file can now contain a 'classifiers' argument listing Trove-style classifiers: setup (name = "Quixote", version = "0.5.1", description = "A highly Pythonic Web application framework", ... classifiers= ['Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content', 'Environment :: No Input/Output (Daemon)', 'Intended Audience :: Developers'], ... ) I can then run 'python setup.py register' to upload an entry to the package index, which is browseable at http://www.amk.ca/cgi-bin/pypi.cgi . ('register --list-classifiers' will output a list of legal classifiers.) See PEP 301 for more details. --amk (www.amk.ca) OLIVIA: Why, this is very midsummer madness. -- _Twelfth Night_, III, iv