The core component is the new Distutils \command{register} command.
Running \code{python setup.py register} will collect the metadata
describing a package, such as its name, version, maintainer,
-description, \&c., and send it to a central catalog server.
-Currently the catalog can be browsed at
-\url{http://www.amk.ca/cgi-bin/pypi.cgi}, but it will move to
-some hostname in the \code{python.org} domain before the final version
-of 2.3 is released.
+description, \&c., and send it to a central catalog server. The
+catalog is available from \url{http://www.python.org/pypi}.
To make the catalog a bit more useful, a new optional
\var{classifiers} keyword argument has been added to the Distutils