There are various fixes and improvements that should form part of a 2.0 version of Distutils.
- Move various utility methods out of command implementations and onto the Distribution class.
- Implement the package database described by PEP 262.
- Consider always regenerating the MANIFEST from MANIFEST.in.
- Finish bdist_dpkg.py
- sdist: Include scripts, data automatically in the source distribution.
- Drop Python 1.5.2 compatibility.
What about package installation from [http://www.python.org/pypi PyPI]? -- MikeRovner DateTime(2003-10-08T23:14:09Z)