I'm ok with scrapping _checkversion. I never even got around to using it all of the time myself:-) And the distutils metainfo should be a good place to store this information in the future. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm