I've used 'paster create -t basic_package ' for the past year to do exactly what you are doing here. The only difference I can see off the top of my head is that your implementation doesn't have the Paste dependency.

Some could argue that PasteScript is over engineered, but that's what makes it extendable. For instance, the basic_namespace template (e.g. `paster create -t basic_namespace my.package') is built from the basic_package template. And there are other packaging templates built from that for more specific cases.
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