John Machin wrote: > FYI, there are a few unreconstructed diehards out here who neither run > on a *x platform nor run bleeding-edge Python straight out of last > night's CVS.
I think you need to pull your head in, mate. The bug you discovered in PyPI is plain and simple a bug in its attempts to discover whether an uploaded ZIP file was generated by distutils. It's a bug. It will get fixed. Get over your damn platform paranoia. Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list