Deploying Python _Applications_

[Sridhar R]

I have no doubt regarding deploying python packages or modules.  There
is distutils doing the job fine.  But I am wondering how I will be
able to deploy my python _applications_.

My application (python) needs some sort of BUILD system, that has
features like autoconf ...

1. Installtion prefix contants '/usr/ or /usr/local'
2. Some constants set during build (like 'HAVE_GTK2' in autoconf)

I searched the distutils documentation and seems to be distutils can't
handle these.

Any thoughts?