As part of a new project deployment plan, we needed to deploy mapscript.

Python-MapScript are the python bindings to the underlying mapserver library.

Where the pain begins is that there is no egg available for it, but an old fashioned distutils distribution;.

My bits there were to make some quickly egg compatible on most unixes. My will is to make it nicer and be integrated on the mapserver trunk code.

You can find the code there : http://git.minitage.org/git/others/mapscript/

And play with the egg:

easy_install mapscript 

You must know that mapserver-config must be available in your $PATH.