On approximately 1/27/2010 1:08 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Glenn Linderman:

Without reference to distutils, it seems the pieces are:

1) a way to decide what to include in the package 2) code that knows where to put what is included, on one or more platforms 3) the process to create the ZIP file that includes 1 & 2, and call it an appropriate name.py

3 looks easy, once 1 & 2 are figured out. distutils might provide the foundation for 1. 2 sounds like something a distutils application might create. I'm not sure that distutils is in the business of building installer programs, my understanding is that it is in the business of providing a standard way of recording and interpreting bills of materials and maybe dependencies, but that is based only on reading discussions here, not reading documentation. I haven't had a chance to read all the module documentation since coming to python.

3 was rather easy, and has come in handy for me, as it turned out: see http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577042/ -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking