diff --git a/tools/mkrel.py b/tools/mkrel.py
index 3293557..dde4e6e 100755
--- a/tools/mkrel.py
+++ b/tools/mkrel.py
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
+""" Create ipykit, source package and exe installer
+
+requires py2exe
+
+"""
 #!/bin/sh
 # IPython release script
 
+
 import os
 import distutils.dir_util
 def c(cmd):
@@ -8,9 +14,12 @@ def c(cmd):
     os.system(cmd)
 
 os.chdir('..')
-
 distutils.dir_util.remove_tree('dist')
+distutils.dir_util.remove_tree('ipykit')
 
+c("python exesetup.py py2exe")
+os.rename('dist','ipykit')
+
+c("zip -r ipykit.zip ipykit")
 
 c("python setup.py bdist_wininst --install-script=ipython_win_post_install.py")
-c("python exesetup.py py2exe")