diff --git a/.get_packages_list.py b/.get_packages_list.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c90948eab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.get_packages_list.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import os
+
+from distutils2.util import find_packages
+
+exclude_list = ('src.gui.glade', 'src.guiQML', 'src.guiQML.views', 'src.images', 'src.plugins',
+                'src.webapp', 'src.webapp.grampsdb', 'src.webapp.grampsdb.templatetags', 'src.webapp.grampsdb.view', )
+
+packages = sorted(find_packages(exclude=exclude_list))
+
+for package in packages:
+    print("            '%s'," % package)