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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Packages built and distributed using ``setuptools`` look to the user like
ordinary Python packages based on the ``distutils``. Your users don't need to
install or even know about setuptools in order to use them, and you don't
have to include the entire setuptools package in your distributions. By
-including just a single `bootstrap module`_ (a 7K .py file), your package will
+including just a single `bootstrap module`_ (an 8K .py file), your package will
automatically download and install ``setuptools`` if the user is building your
package from source and doesn't have a suitable version already installed.
@@ -2181,6 +2181,10 @@ Release Notes/Change History
that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it
were a zipfile or tarfile.
+ * Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style
+ ``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
+ package.
+
0.6a8
* Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
@@ -2434,3 +2438,12 @@ Release Notes/Change History
0.3a1
* Initial release.
+
+Mailing list
+============
+
+Please use the `distutils-sig mailing list`_ for questions and discussion about
+setuptools.
+
+.. _distutils-sig mailing list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/
+