on NUMBER september NUMBER guido van rossum said if and when we package this perhaps we should use barry s trick from the email package for making the package itself the toplevel dir of the distribution rather than requiring an extra directory level just so the package can be a subdir of the distro it s not a trick it just requires this package_dir spambayes in the setup script harrumph trick indeed greg greg ward gward python net URL a committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain 