diff --git a/mktarball.py b/mktarball.py
index b016e366c..943297384 100644
--- a/mktarball.py
+++ b/mktarball.py
@@ -4,17 +4,25 @@
 # the script is living in, excluding CVS directories and the 
 # script itself.
 #
-# $Id: mktarball.py,v 1.7 2000-02-13 17:36:44 just Exp $
+# $Id: mktarball.py,v 1.8 2001-08-10 16:49:17 jvr Exp $
 #
 
 
 import os, sys
 
+
 program = os.path.normpath(sys.argv[0])
 script = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), program)
 srcdir, scriptname = os.path.split(script)
 wdir, src = os.path.split(srcdir)
 
+try:
+	execfile(os.path.join(srcdir, "Lib", "fontTools", "__init__.py"))
+	version  # make sure we now have a variable named "version"
+except (IOError, NameError):
+	version = None
+
+
 destdir = None
 if sys.argv[1:]:
 	destdir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), sys.argv[1]))
@@ -22,7 +30,10 @@ if sys.argv[1:]:
 
 os.chdir(wdir)
 
-tar = src + ".tar"
+if version:
+	tar = src + "-%s.tar" % version
+else:
+	tar = src + ".tar"
 gz = tar + ".gz"
 
 print "source:", src