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Clearly the hamcrest Java library has a stable release, but as far as I can tell the hamcrest-php, hamcrest-python and hamcrest-as3 (and presumably others, but those are the ones I care about at the moment) do not; you can only acquire them in source code form. This is, putting it mildly, a bit of a pain when I have to deploy a versioned copy of a library to a production machine.

Does the community around these libraries have any plan to make stable releases of them?

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I'm the author of hamcrest-python. What kind of packaging do you recommend for it?

Jon Reid
I'm not too familiar with the packaging conventions for python apps on the whole, but I've seen `egg` files tossed around, and those seem like a good start. It's a bit more complex than that here, since our production systems require a FreeBSD port to exist in order to install software, but even an easy_install egg would be a huge step towards convincing our sysadmins to install the library.
Chris R