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> Python modules are slowly moving from distutils
> to setuptools. I have no python experience, but
> I see that this causes serious and annoying
> problems for newer ports.
> 
Are you referring to the OSRELEASE problem, or are you referring to the
intra-port egg dependency problem?

> Is there someone willing to identify and attempt
> to solve the problems?
We have ok solutions for many of these problems; it's hard to do anything
better (or simply impossible) in some cases. In other cases the update to
Python 2.5 (which I started fixing on and miwi@ is helping out with) includes
considerably better support for setuptools.

Alex