now has a unique CHANGES file. Later on when the project will be splitted in 2...

now has a unique CHANGES file. Later on when the project will be splitted in 2 or 3, each project will gets its own CHANGES file

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CHANGES.txt

+=======
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+setuptools
+---------
+
+0.6final
+ * Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes
+   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/10.
+
+ * Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes
+   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/7.
+
+ * sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open. This
+   closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/6.
+
+ * Immediately close all file handles. This closes
+   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
+
+ * Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references
+   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/1.
+
+0.6c9
+ * Fixed a missing files problem when using Windows source distributions on
+   non-Windows platforms, due to distutils not handling manifest file line
+   endings correctly.
+
+ * Updated Pyrex support to work with Pyrex 0.9.6 and higher.
+
+ * Minor changes for Jython compatibility, including skipping tests that can't
+   work on Jython.
+
+ * Fixed not installing eggs in ``install_requires`` if they were also used for
+   ``setup_requires`` or ``tests_require``.
+
+ * Fixed not fetching eggs in ``install_requires`` when running tests.
+
+ * Allow ``ez_setup.use_setuptools()`` to upgrade existing setuptools
+   installations when called from a standalone ``setup.py``.
+
+ * Added a warning if a namespace package is declared, but its parent package
+   is not also declared as a namespace.
+
+ * Support Subversion 1.5
+
+ * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
+
+ * Fixed ``bdist_wininst upload`` trying to upload the ``.exe`` twice
+
+ * Fixed ``bdist_egg`` putting a ``native_libs.txt`` in the source package's
+   ``.egg-info``, when it should only be in the built egg's ``EGG-INFO``.
+
+ * Ensure that _full_name is set on all shared libs before extensions are
+   checked for shared lib usage.  (Fixes a bug in the experimental shared
+   library build support.)
+
+ * Fix to allow unpacked eggs containing native libraries to fail more
+   gracefully under Google App Engine (with an ``ImportError`` loading the
+   C-based module, instead of getting a ``NameError``).
+
+0.6c7
+ * Fixed ``distutils.filelist.findall()`` crashing on broken symlinks, and 
+   ``egg_info`` command failing on new, uncommitted SVN directories.
+
+ * Fix import problems with nested namespace packages installed via
+   ``--root`` or ``--single-version-externally-managed``, due to the
+   parent package not having the child package as an attribute.
+
+0.6c6
+ * Added ``--egg-path`` option to ``develop`` command, allowing you to force
+   ``.egg-link`` files to use relative paths (allowing them to be shared across
+   platforms on a networked drive).
+
+ * Fix not building binary RPMs correctly.
+
+ * Fix "eggsecutables" (such as setuptools' own egg) only being runnable with
+   bash-compatible shells.
+
+ * Fix ``#!`` parsing problems in Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers, when there
+   was whitespace inside a quoted argument or at the end of the ``#!`` line
+   (a regression introduced in 0.6c4).
+
+ * Fix ``test`` command possibly failing if an older version of the project
+   being tested was installed on ``sys.path`` ahead of the test source
+   directory.
+
+ * Fix ``find_packages()`` treating ``ez_setup`` and directories with ``.`` in
+   their names as packages.
+ 
+0.6c5
+ * Fix uploaded ``bdist_rpm`` packages being described as ``bdist_egg``
+   packages under Python versions less than 2.5.
+
+ * Fix uploaded ``bdist_wininst`` packages being described as suitable for
+   "any" version by Python 2.5, even if a ``--target-version`` was specified.
+
+0.6c4
+ * Overhauled Windows script wrapping to support ``bdist_wininst`` better.
+   Scripts installed with ``bdist_wininst`` will always use ``#!python.exe`` or
+   ``#!pythonw.exe`` as the executable name (even when built on non-Windows
+   platforms!), and the wrappers will look for the executable in the script's
+   parent directory (which should find the right version of Python).
+
+ * Fix ``upload`` command not uploading files built by ``bdist_rpm`` or
+   ``bdist_wininst`` under Python 2.3 and 2.4.
+
+ * Add support for "eggsecutable" headers: a ``#!/bin/sh`` script that is
+   prepended to an ``.egg`` file to allow it to be run as a script on Unix-ish
+   platforms.  (This is mainly so that setuptools itself can have a single-file
+   installer on Unix, without doing multiple downloads, dealing with firewalls,
+   etc.)
+
+ * Fix problem with empty revision numbers in Subversion 1.4 ``entries`` files
+
+ * Use cross-platform relative paths in ``easy-install.pth`` when doing
+   ``develop`` and the source directory is a subdirectory of the installation
+   target directory.
+
+ * Fix a problem installing eggs with a system packaging tool if the project
+   contained an implicit namespace package; for example if the ``setup()``
+   listed a namespace package ``foo.bar`` without explicitly listing ``foo``
+   as a namespace package.
+
+0.6c3
+ * Fixed breakages caused by Subversion 1.4's new "working copy" format
+
+0.6c2
+ * The ``ez_setup`` module displays the conflicting version of setuptools (and
+   its installation location) when a script requests a version that's not
+   available.
+
+ * Running ``setup.py develop`` on a setuptools-using project will now install
+   setuptools if needed, instead of only downloading the egg.
+
+0.6c1
+ * Fixed ``AttributeError`` when trying to download a ``setup_requires``
+   dependency when a distribution lacks a ``dependency_links`` setting.
+
+ * Made ``zip-safe`` and ``not-zip-safe`` flag files contain a single byte, so
+   as to play better with packaging tools that complain about zero-length
+   files.
+
+ * Made ``setup.py develop`` respect the ``--no-deps`` option, which it
+   previously was ignoring.
+
+ * Support ``extra_path`` option to ``setup()`` when ``install`` is run in
+   backward-compatibility mode.
+
+ * Source distributions now always include a ``setup.cfg`` file that explicitly
+   sets ``egg_info`` options such that they produce an identical version number
+   to the source distribution's version number.  (Previously, the default
+   version number could be different due to the use of ``--tag-date``, or if
+   the version was overridden on the command line that built the source
+   distribution.)
+
+0.6b4
+ * Fix ``register`` not obeying name/version set by ``egg_info`` command, if
+   ``egg_info`` wasn't explicitly run first on the same command line.
+
+ * Added ``--no-date`` and ``--no-svn-revision`` options to ``egg_info``
+   command, to allow suppressing tags configured in ``setup.cfg``.
+
+ * Fixed redundant warnings about missing ``README`` file(s); it should now
+   appear only if you are actually a source distribution.
+
+0.6b3
+ * Fix ``bdist_egg`` not including files in subdirectories of ``.egg-info``.
+
+ * Allow ``.py`` files found by the ``include_package_data`` option to be
+   automatically included.  Remove duplicate data file matches if both
+   ``include_package_data`` and ``package_data`` are used to refer to the same
+   files.
+
+0.6b1
+ * Strip ``module`` from the end of compiled extension modules when computing
+   the name of a ``.py`` loader/wrapper.  (Python's import machinery ignores
+   this suffix when searching for an extension module.)
+
+0.6a11
+ * Added ``test_loader`` keyword to support custom test loaders
+
+ * Added ``setuptools.file_finders`` entry point group to allow implementing
+   revision control plugins.
+
+ * Added ``--identity`` option to ``upload`` command.
+
+ * Added ``dependency_links`` to allow specifying URLs for ``--find-links``.
+
+ * Enhanced test loader to scan packages as well as modules, and call
+   ``additional_tests()`` if present to get non-unittest tests.
+
+ * Support namespace packages in conjunction with system packagers, by omitting
+   the installation of any ``__init__.py`` files for namespace packages, and
+   adding a special ``.pth`` file to create a working package in
+   ``sys.modules``.
+
+ * Made ``--single-version-externally-managed`` automatic when ``--root`` is
+   used, so that most system packagers won't require special support for
+   setuptools.
+
+ * Fixed ``setup_requires``, ``tests_require``, etc. not using ``setup.cfg`` or
+   other configuration files for their option defaults when installing, and
+   also made the install use ``--multi-version`` mode so that the project
+   directory doesn't need to support .pth files.
+
+ * ``MANIFEST.in`` is now forcibly closed when any errors occur while reading
+   it.  Previously, the file could be left open and the actual error would be
+   masked by problems trying to remove the open file on Windows systems.
+
+0.6a10
+ * Fixed the ``develop`` command ignoring ``--find-links``.
+
+0.6a9
+ * The ``sdist`` command no longer uses the traditional ``MANIFEST`` file to
+   create source distributions.  ``MANIFEST.in`` is still read and processed,
+   as are the standard defaults and pruning.  But the manifest is built inside
+   the project's ``.egg-info`` directory as ``SOURCES.txt``, and it is rebuilt
+   every time the ``egg_info`` command is run.
+
+ * Added the ``include_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
+   automatically include any package data listed in revision control or
+   ``MANIFEST.in``
+
+ * Added the ``exclude_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
+   trim back files included via the ``package_data`` and
+   ``include_package_data`` options.
+
+ * Fixed ``--tag-svn-revision`` not working when run from a source
+   distribution.
+
+ * Added warning for namespace packages with missing ``declare_namespace()``
+
+ * Added ``tests_require`` keyword to ``setup()``, so that e.g. packages
+   requiring ``nose`` to run unit tests can make this dependency optional
+   unless the ``test`` command is run.
+
+ * Made all commands that use ``easy_install`` respect its configuration
+   options, as this was causing some problems with ``setup.py install``.
+
+ * Added an ``unpack_directory()`` driver to ``setuptools.archive_util``, so
+   that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it
+   were a zipfile or tarfile.
+
+ * Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style
+   ``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
+   package.
+
+ * Added a ``--single-version-externally-managed`` option to the ``install``
+   command so that you can more easily wrap a "flat" egg in a system package.
+
+ * Enhanced ``bdist_rpm`` so that it installs single-version eggs that
+   don't rely on a ``.pth`` file.  The ``--no-egg`` option has been removed,
+   since all RPMs are now built in a more backwards-compatible format.
+
+ * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
+   format.  Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
+   egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
+   and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
+   back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
+
+
+0.6a8
+ * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
+   with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
+
+ * Made ``develop`` command accept all the same options as ``easy_install``,
+   and use the ``easy_install`` command's configuration settings as defaults.
+
+ * Made ``egg_info --tag-svn-revision`` fall back to extracting the revision
+   number from ``PKG-INFO`` in case it is being run on a source distribution of
+   a snapshot taken from a Subversion-based project.
+
+ * Automatically detect ``.dll``, ``.so`` and ``.dylib`` files that are being
+   installed as data, adding them to ``native_libs.txt`` automatically.
+
+ * Fixed some problems with fresh checkouts of projects that don't include
+   ``.egg-info/PKG-INFO`` under revision control and put the project's source
+   code directly in the project directory.  If such a package had any
+   requirements that get processed before the ``egg_info`` command can be run,
+   the setup scripts would fail with a "Missing 'Version:' header and/or
+   PKG-INFO file" error, because the egg runtime interpreted the unbuilt
+   metadata in a directory on ``sys.path`` (i.e. the current directory) as
+   being a corrupted egg.  Setuptools now monkeypatches the distribution
+   metadata cache to pretend that the egg has valid version information, until
+   it has a chance to make it actually be so (via the ``egg_info`` command).
+
+0.6a5
+ * Fixed missing gui/cli .exe files in distribution.  Fixed bugs in tests.
+
+0.6a3
+ * Added ``gui_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing GUI scripts
+   on Windows and other platforms.  (The special handling is only for Windows;
+   other platforms are treated the same as for ``console_scripts``.)
+
+0.6a2
+ * Added ``console_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing scripts
+   without the need to create separate script files.  On Windows, console
+   scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name.  On other
+   platforms, the scripts are written without a file extension.
+
+0.6a1
+ * Added support for building "old-style" RPMs that don't install an egg for
+   the target package, using a ``--no-egg`` option.
+
+ * The ``build_ext`` command now works better when using the ``--inplace``
+   option and multiple Python versions.  It now makes sure that all extensions
+   match the current Python version, even if newer copies were built for a
+   different Python version.
+
+ * The ``upload`` command no longer attaches an extra ``.zip`` when uploading
+   eggs, as PyPI now supports egg uploads without trickery.
+
+ * The ``ez_setup`` script/module now displays a warning before downloading
+   the setuptools egg, and attempts to check the downloaded egg against an
+   internal MD5 checksum table.
+
+ * Fixed the ``--tag-svn-revision`` option of ``egg_info`` not finding the
+   latest revision number; it was using the revision number of the directory
+   containing ``setup.py``, not the highest revision number in the project.
+
+ * Added ``eager_resources`` setup argument
+
+ * The ``sdist`` command now recognizes Subversion "deleted file" entries and
+   does not include them in source distributions.
+
+ * ``setuptools`` now embeds itself more thoroughly into the distutils, so that
+   other distutils extensions (e.g. py2exe, py2app) will subclass setuptools'
+   versions of things, rather than the native distutils ones.
+
+ * Added ``entry_points`` and ``setup_requires`` arguments to ``setup()``;
+   ``setup_requires`` allows you to automatically find and download packages
+   that are needed in order to *build* your project (as opposed to running it).
+
+ * ``setuptools`` now finds its commands, ``setup()`` argument validators, and
+   metadata writers using entry points, so that they can be extended by
+   third-party packages.  See `Creating distutils Extensions`_ above for more
+   details.
+
+ * The vestigial ``depends`` command has been removed.  It was never finished
+   or documented, and never would have worked without EasyInstall - which it
+   pre-dated and was never compatible with.
+
+0.5a12
+ * The zip-safety scanner now checks for modules that might be used with
+   ``python -m``, and marks them as unsafe for zipping, since Python 2.4 can't
+   handle ``-m`` on zipped modules.
+
+0.5a11
+ * Fix breakage of the "develop" command that was caused by the addition of
+   ``--always-unzip`` to the ``easy_install`` command.
+
+0.5a9
+ * Include ``svn:externals`` directories in source distributions as well as
+   normal subversion-controlled files and directories.
+
+ * Added ``exclude=patternlist`` option to ``setuptools.find_packages()``
+
+ * Changed --tag-svn-revision to include an "r" in front of the revision number
+   for better readability.
+
+ * Added ability to build eggs without including source files (except for any
+   scripts, of course), using the ``--exclude-source-files`` option to
+   ``bdist_egg``.
+
+ * ``setup.py install`` now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package
+   or module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package being installed,
+   thereby preventing the newer version from being imported.  If this occurs,
+   a warning message is output to ``sys.stderr``, but installation proceeds
+   anyway.  The warning message informs the user what files or directories
+   need deleting, and advises them they can also use EasyInstall (with the
+   ``--delete-conflicting`` option) to do it automatically.
+
+ * The ``egg_info`` command now adds a ``top_level.txt`` file to the metadata
+   directory that lists all top-level modules and packages in the distribution.
+   This is used by the ``easy_install`` command to find possibly-conflicting
+   "unmanaged" packages when installing the distribution.
+
+ * Added ``zip_safe`` and ``namespace_packages`` arguments to ``setup()``.
+   Added package analysis to determine zip-safety if the ``zip_safe`` flag
+   is not given, and advise the author regarding what code might need changing.
+
+ * Fixed the swapped ``-d`` and ``-b`` options of ``bdist_egg``.
+
+0.5a8
+ * The "egg_info" command now always sets the distribution metadata to "safe"
+   forms of the distribution name and version, so that distribution files will
+   be generated with parseable names (i.e., ones that don't include '-' in the
+   name or version).  Also, this means that if you use the various ``--tag``
+   options of "egg_info", any distributions generated will use the tags in the
+   version, not just egg distributions.
+
+ * Added support for defining command aliases in distutils configuration files,
+   under the "[aliases]" section.  To prevent recursion and to allow aliases to
+   call the command of the same name, a given alias can be expanded only once
+   per command-line invocation.  You can define new aliases with the "alias"
+   command, either for the local, global, or per-user configuration.
+
+ * Added "rotate" command to delete old distribution files, given a set of
+   patterns to match and the number of files to keep.  (Keeps the most
+   recently-modified distribution files matching each pattern.)
+
+ * Added "saveopts" command that saves all command-line options for the current
+   invocation to the local, global, or per-user configuration file.  Useful for
+   setting defaults without having to hand-edit a configuration file.
+
+ * Added a "setopt" command that sets a single option in a specified distutils
+   configuration file.
+
+0.5a7
+ * Added "upload" support for egg and source distributions, including a bug
+   fix for "upload" and a temporary workaround for lack of .egg support in
+   PyPI.
+
+0.5a6
+ * Beefed up the "sdist" command so that if you don't have a MANIFEST.in, it
+   will include all files under revision control (CVS or Subversion) in the
+   current directory, and it will regenerate the list every time you create a
+   source distribution, not just when you tell it to.  This should make the
+   default "do what you mean" more often than the distutils' default behavior
+   did, while still retaining the old behavior in the presence of MANIFEST.in.
+
+ * Fixed the "develop" command always updating .pth files, even if you
+   specified ``-n`` or ``--dry-run``.
+
+ * Slightly changed the format of the generated version when you use
+   ``--tag-build`` on the "egg_info" command, so that you can make tagged
+   revisions compare *lower* than the version specified in setup.py (e.g. by
+   using ``--tag-build=dev``).
+
+0.5a5
+ * Added ``develop`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages.  This command
+   installs an ``.egg-link`` pointing to the package's source directory, and
+   script wrappers that ``execfile()`` the source versions of the package's
+   scripts.  This lets you put your development checkout(s) on sys.path without
+   having to actually install them.  (To uninstall the link, use
+   use ``setup.py develop --uninstall``.)
+
+ * Added ``egg_info`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages.  This command
+   just creates or updates the "projectname.egg-info" directory, without
+   building an egg.  (It's used by the ``bdist_egg``, ``test``, and ``develop``
+   commands.)
+
+ * Enhanced the ``test`` command so that it doesn't install the package, but
+   instead builds any C extensions in-place, updates the ``.egg-info``
+   metadata, adds the source directory to ``sys.path``, and runs the tests
+   directly on the source.  This avoids an "unmanaged" installation of the
+   package to ``site-packages`` or elsewhere.
+
+ * Made ``easy_install`` a standard ``setuptools`` command, moving it from
+   the ``easy_install`` module to ``setuptools.command.easy_install``.  Note
+   that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports
+   accordingly.  ``easy_install.py`` is still installed as a script, but not as
+   a module.
+
+0.5a4
+ * Setup scripts using setuptools can now list their dependencies directly in
+   the setup.py file, without having to manually create a ``depends.txt`` file.
+   The ``install_requires`` and ``extras_require`` arguments to ``setup()``
+   are used to create a dependencies file automatically.  If you are manually
+   creating ``depends.txt`` right now, please switch to using these setup
+   arguments as soon as practical, because ``depends.txt`` support will be
+   removed in the 0.6 release cycle.  For documentation on the new arguments,
+   see the ``setuptools.dist.Distribution`` class.
+
+ * Setup scripts using setuptools now always install using ``easy_install``
+   internally, for ease of uninstallation and upgrading.
+
+0.5a1
+ * Added support for "self-installation" bootstrapping.  Packages can now
+   include ``ez_setup.py`` in their source distribution, and add the following
+   to their ``setup.py``, in order to automatically bootstrap installation of
+   setuptools as part of their setup process::
+
+    from ez_setup import use_setuptools
+    use_setuptools()
+
+    from setuptools import setup
+    # etc...
+
+0.4a2
+ * Added ``ez_setup.py`` installer/bootstrap script to make initial setuptools
+   installation easier, and to allow distributions using setuptools to avoid
+   having to include setuptools in their source distribution.
+
+ * All downloads are now managed by the ``PackageIndex`` class (which is now
+   subclassable and replaceable), so that embedders can more easily override
+   download logic, give download progress reports, etc.  The class has also
+   been moved to the new ``setuptools.package_index`` module.
+
+ * The ``Installer`` class no longer handles downloading, manages a temporary
+   directory, or tracks the ``zip_ok`` option.  Downloading is now handled
+   by ``PackageIndex``, and ``Installer`` has become an ``easy_install``
+   command class based on ``setuptools.Command``.
+
+ * There is a new ``setuptools.sandbox.run_setup()`` API to invoke a setup
+   script in a directory sandbox, and a new ``setuptools.archive_util`` module
+   with an ``unpack_archive()`` API.  These were split out of EasyInstall to
+   allow reuse by other tools and applications.
+
+ * ``setuptools.Command`` now supports reinitializing commands using keyword
+   arguments to set/reset options.  Also, ``Command`` subclasses can now set
+   their ``command_consumes_arguments`` attribute to ``True`` in order to
+   receive an ``args`` option containing the rest of the command line.
+
+0.3a2
+ * Added new options to ``bdist_egg`` to allow tagging the egg's version number
+   with a subversion revision number, the current date, or an explicit tag
+   value.  Run ``setup.py bdist_egg --help`` to get more information.
+
+ * Misc. bug fixes
+
+0.3a1
+ * Initial release.
+
+pkg_resources
+-------------
+
+0.6final
+ * Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail gracefully.
+   This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/9.
+
+ * Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry.
+   This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/8.
+
+ * Immediately close all file handles. This closes
+   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
+
+0.6c9
+ * Fix ``resource_listdir('')`` always returning an empty list for zipped eggs.
+
+0.6c7
+ * Fix package precedence problem where single-version eggs installed in
+   ``site-packages`` would take precedence over ``.egg`` files (or directories)
+   installed in ``site-packages``.
+
+0.6c6
+ * Fix extracted C extensions not having executable permissions under Cygwin.
+
+ * Allow ``.egg-link`` files to contain relative paths.
+
+ * Fix cache dir defaults on Windows when multiple environment vars are needed
+   to construct a path.
+ 
+0.6c4
+ * Fix "dev" versions being considered newer than release candidates.
+
+0.6c3
+ * Python 2.5 compatibility fixes.
+
+0.6c2
+ * Fix a problem with eggs specified directly on ``PYTHONPATH`` on
+   case-insensitive filesystems possibly not showing up in the default
+   working set, due to differing normalizations of ``sys.path`` entries.
+
+0.6b3
+ * Fixed a duplicate path insertion problem on case-insensitive filesystems.
+
+0.6b1
+ * Split ``get_platform()`` into ``get_supported_platform()`` and
+   ``get_build_platform()`` to work around a Mac versioning problem that caused
+   the behavior of ``compatible_platforms()`` to be platform specific.
+
+ * Fix entry point parsing when a standalone module name has whitespace
+   between it and the extras.
+
+0.6a11
+ * Added ``ExtractionError`` and ``ResourceManager.extraction_error()`` so that
+   cache permission problems get a more user-friendly explanation of the
+   problem, and so that programs can catch and handle extraction errors if they
+   need to.
+
+0.6a10
+ * Added the ``extras`` attribute to ``Distribution``, the ``find_plugins()``
+   method to ``WorkingSet``, and the ``__add__()`` and ``__iadd__()`` methods
+   to ``Environment``.
+
+ * ``safe_name()`` now allows dots in project names.
+
+ * There is a new ``to_filename()`` function that escapes project names and
+   versions for safe use in constructing egg filenames from a Distribution
+   object's metadata.
+
+ * Added ``Distribution.clone()`` method, and keyword argument support to other
+   ``Distribution`` constructors.
+
+ * Added the ``DEVELOP_DIST`` precedence, and automatically assign it to
+   eggs using ``.egg-info`` format.
+
+0.6a9
+ * Don't raise an error when an invalid (unfinished) distribution is found
+   unless absolutely necessary.  Warn about skipping invalid/unfinished eggs
+   when building an Environment.
+
+ * Added support for ``.egg-info`` files or directories with version/platform
+   information embedded in the filename, so that system packagers have the
+   option of including ``PKG-INFO`` files to indicate the presence of a
+   system-installed egg, without needing to use ``.egg`` directories, zipfiles,
+   or ``.pth`` manipulation.
+
+ * Changed ``parse_version()`` to remove dashes before pre-release tags, so
+   that ``0.2-rc1`` is considered an *older* version than ``0.2``, and is equal
+   to ``0.2rc1``.  The idea that a dash *always* meant a post-release version
+   was highly non-intuitive to setuptools users and Python developers, who
+   seem to want to use ``-rc`` version numbers a lot.
+
+0.6a8
+ * Fixed a problem with ``WorkingSet.resolve()`` that prevented version
+   conflicts from being detected at runtime.
+
+ * Improved runtime conflict warning message to identify a line in the user's
+   program, rather than flagging the ``warn()`` call in ``pkg_resources``.
+
+ * Avoid giving runtime conflict warnings for namespace packages, even if they
+   were declared by a different package than the one currently being activated.
+
+ * Fix path insertion algorithm for case-insensitive filesystems.
+
+ * Fixed a problem with nested namespace packages (e.g. ``peak.util``) not
+   being set as an attribute of their parent package.
+
+0.6a6
+ * Activated distributions are now inserted in ``sys.path`` (and the working
+   set) just before the directory that contains them, instead of at the end.
+   This allows e.g. eggs in ``site-packages`` to override unmanaged modules in
+   the same location, and allows eggs found earlier on ``sys.path`` to override
+   ones found later.
+
+ * When a distribution is activated, it now checks whether any contained
+   non-namespace modules have already been imported and issues a warning if
+   a conflicting module has already been imported.
+
+ * Changed dependency processing so that it's breadth-first, allowing a
+   depender's preferences to override those of a dependee, to prevent conflicts
+   when a lower version is acceptable to the dependee, but not the depender.
+
+ * Fixed a problem extracting zipped files on Windows, when the egg in question
+   has had changed contents but still has the same version number.
+
+0.6a4
+ * Fix a bug in ``WorkingSet.resolve()`` that was introduced in 0.6a3.
+
+0.6a3
+ * Added ``safe_extra()`` parsing utility routine, and use it for Requirement,
+   EntryPoint, and Distribution objects' extras handling.
+
+0.6a1
+ * Enhanced performance of ``require()`` and related operations when all
+   requirements are already in the working set, and enhanced performance of
+   directory scanning for distributions.
+
+ * Fixed some problems using ``pkg_resources`` w/PEP 302 loaders other than
+   ``zipimport``, and the previously-broken "eager resource" support.
+
+ * Fixed ``pkg_resources.resource_exists()`` not working correctly, along with
+   some other resource API bugs.
+
+ * Many API changes and enhancements:
+
+   * Added ``EntryPoint``, ``get_entry_map``, ``load_entry_point``, and
+     ``get_entry_info`` APIs for dynamic plugin discovery.
+
+   * ``list_resources`` is now ``resource_listdir`` (and it actually works)
+
+   * Resource API functions like ``resource_string()`` that accepted a package
+     name and resource name, will now also accept a ``Requirement`` object in
+     place of the package name (to allow access to non-package data files in
+     an egg).
+
+   * ``get_provider()`` will now accept a ``Requirement`` instance or a module
+     name.  If it is given a ``Requirement``, it will return a corresponding
+     ``Distribution`` (by calling ``require()`` if a suitable distribution
+     isn't already in the working set), rather than returning a metadata and
+     resource provider for a specific module.  (The difference is in how
+     resource paths are interpreted; supplying a module name means resources
+     path will be module-relative, rather than relative to the distribution's
+     root.)
+
+   * ``Distribution`` objects now implement the ``IResourceProvider`` and
+     ``IMetadataProvider`` interfaces, so you don't need to reference the (no
+     longer available) ``metadata`` attribute to get at these interfaces.
+
+   * ``Distribution`` and ``Requirement`` both have a ``project_name``
+     attribute for the project name they refer to.  (Previously these were
+     ``name`` and ``distname`` attributes.)
+
+   * The ``path`` attribute of ``Distribution`` objects is now ``location``,
+     because it isn't necessarily a filesystem path (and hasn't been for some
+     time now).  The ``location`` of ``Distribution`` objects in the filesystem
+     should always be normalized using ``pkg_resources.normalize_path()``; all
+     of the setuptools and EasyInstall code that generates distributions from
+     the filesystem (including ``Distribution.from_filename()``) ensure this
+     invariant, but if you use a more generic API like ``Distribution()`` or
+     ``Distribution.from_location()`` you should take care that you don't
+     create a distribution with an un-normalized filesystem path.
+
+   * ``Distribution`` objects now have an ``as_requirement()`` method that
+     returns a ``Requirement`` for the distribution's project name and version.
+
+   * Distribution objects no longer have an ``installed_on()`` method, and the
+     ``install_on()`` method is now ``activate()`` (but may go away altogether
+     soon).  The ``depends()`` method has also been renamed to ``requires()``,
+     and ``InvalidOption`` is now ``UnknownExtra``.
+
+   * ``find_distributions()`` now takes an additional argument called ``only``,
+     that tells it to only yield distributions whose location is the passed-in
+     path.  (It defaults to False, so that the default behavior is unchanged.)
+
+   * ``AvailableDistributions`` is now called ``Environment``, and the
+     ``get()``, ``__len__()``, and ``__contains__()`` methods were removed,
+     because they weren't particularly useful.  ``__getitem__()`` no longer
+     raises ``KeyError``; it just returns an empty list if there are no
+     distributions for the named project.
+
+   * The ``resolve()`` method of ``Environment`` is now a method of
+     ``WorkingSet`` instead, and the ``best_match()`` method now uses a working
+     set instead of a path list as its second argument.
+
+   * There is a new ``pkg_resources.add_activation_listener()`` API that lets
+     you register a callback for notifications about distributions added to
+     ``sys.path`` (including the distributions already on it).  This is
+     basically a hook for extensible applications and frameworks to be able to
+     search for plugin metadata in distributions added at runtime.
+
+0.5a13
+ * Fixed a bug in resource extraction from nested packages in a zipped egg.
+
+0.5a12
+ * Updated extraction/cache mechanism for zipped resources to avoid inter-
+   process and inter-thread races during extraction.  The default cache
+   location can now be set via the ``PYTHON_EGGS_CACHE`` environment variable,
+   and the default Windows cache is now a ``Python-Eggs`` subdirectory of the
+   current user's "Application Data" directory, if the ``PYTHON_EGGS_CACHE``
+   variable isn't set.
+
+0.5a10
+ * Fix a problem with ``pkg_resources`` being confused by non-existent eggs on
+   ``sys.path`` (e.g. if a user deletes an egg without removing it from the
+   ``easy-install.pth`` file).
+
+ * Fix a problem with "basket" support in ``pkg_resources``, where egg-finding
+   never actually went inside ``.egg`` files.
+
+ * Made ``pkg_resources`` import the module you request resources from, if it's
+   not already imported.
+
+0.5a4
+ * ``pkg_resources.AvailableDistributions.resolve()`` and related methods now
+   accept an ``installer`` argument: a callable taking one argument, a
+   ``Requirement`` instance.  The callable must return a ``Distribution``
+   object, or ``None`` if no distribution is found.  This feature is used by
+   EasyInstall to resolve dependencies by recursively invoking itself.
+
+0.4a4
+ * Fix problems with ``resource_listdir()``, ``resource_isdir()`` and resource
+   directory extraction for zipped eggs.
+
+0.4a3
+ * Fixed scripts not being able to see a ``__file__`` variable in ``__main__``
+
+ * Fixed a problem with ``resource_isdir()`` implementation that was introduced
+   in 0.4a2.
+
+0.4a1
+ * Fixed a bug in requirements processing for exact versions (i.e. ``==`` and
+   ``!=``) when only one condition was included.
+
+ * Added ``safe_name()`` and ``safe_version()`` APIs to clean up handling of
+   arbitrary distribution names and versions found on PyPI.
+
+0.3a4
+ * ``pkg_resources`` now supports resource directories, not just the resources
+   in them.  In particular, there are ``resource_listdir()`` and
+   ``resource_isdir()`` APIs.
+
+ * ``pkg_resources`` now supports "egg baskets" -- .egg zipfiles which contain
+   multiple distributions in subdirectories whose names end with ``.egg``.
+   Having such a "basket" in a directory on ``sys.path`` is equivalent to
+   having the individual eggs in that directory, but the contained eggs can
+   be individually added (or not) to ``sys.path``.  Currently, however, there
+   is no automated way to create baskets.
+
+ * Namespace package manipulation is now protected by the Python import lock.
+
+0.3a1
+ * Initial release.
+
+easy_install
+------------
+
+0.6final
+ * Immediately close all file handles. This closes
+   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
+
+0.6c9
+ * Fixed ``win32.exe`` support for .pth files, so unnecessary directory nesting
+   is flattened out in the resulting egg.  (There was a case-sensitivity
+   problem that affected some distributions, notably ``pywin32``.)
+
+ * Prevent ``--help-commands`` and other junk from showing under Python 2.5
+   when running ``easy_install --help``.
+
+ * Fixed GUI scripts sometimes not executing on Windows
+
+ * Fixed not picking up dependency links from recursive dependencies.
+
+ * Only make ``.py``, ``.dll`` and ``.so`` files executable when unpacking eggs
+
+ * Changes for Jython compatibility
+
+ * Improved error message when a requirement is also a directory name, but the
+   specified directory is not a source package.
+
+ * Fixed ``--allow-hosts`` option blocking ``file:`` URLs
+
+ * Fixed HTTP SVN detection failing when the page title included a project
+   name (e.g. on SourceForge-hosted SVN)
+
+ * Fix Jython script installation to handle ``#!`` lines better when
+   ``sys.executable`` is a script.
+
+ * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
+
+ * Keep site directories (e.g. ``site-packages``) from being included in
+   ``.pth`` files.
+
+0.6c7
+ * ``ftp:`` download URLs now work correctly.
+
+ * The default ``--index-url`` is now ``http://pypi.python.org/simple``, to use
+   the Python Package Index's new simpler (and faster!) REST API.
+
+0.6c6
+ * EasyInstall no longer aborts the installation process if a URL it wants to
+   retrieve can't be downloaded, unless the URL is an actual package download.
+   Instead, it issues a warning and tries to keep going.
+
+ * Fixed distutils-style scripts originally built on Windows having their line
+   endings doubled when installed on any platform.
+
+ * Added ``--local-snapshots-ok`` flag, to allow building eggs from projects
+   installed using ``setup.py develop``.
+
+ * Fixed not HTML-decoding URLs scraped from web pages
+  
+0.6c5
+ * Fixed ``.dll`` files on Cygwin not having executable permisions when an egg
+   is installed unzipped.
+
+0.6c4
+ * Added support for HTTP "Basic" authentication using ``http://user:pass@host``
+   URLs.  If a password-protected page contains links to the same host (and
+   protocol), those links will inherit the credentials used to access the
+   original page.
+
+ * Removed all special support for Sourceforge mirrors, as Sourceforge's
+   mirror system now works well for non-browser downloads.
+
+ * Fixed not recognizing ``win32.exe`` installers that included a custom
+   bitmap.
+
+ * Fixed not allowing ``os.open()`` of paths outside the sandbox, even if they
+   are opened read-only (e.g. reading ``/dev/urandom`` for random numbers, as
+   is done by ``os.urandom()`` on some platforms).
+
+ * Fixed a problem with ``.pth`` testing on Windows when ``sys.executable``
+   has a space in it (e.g., the user installed Python to a ``Program Files``
+   directory).
+
+0.6c3
+ * You can once again use "python -m easy_install" with Python 2.4 and above.
+
+ * Python 2.5 compatibility fixes added.
+
+0.6c2
+ * Windows script wrappers now support quoted arguments and arguments
+   containing spaces.  (Patch contributed by Jim Fulton.)
+
+ * The ``ez_setup.py`` script now actually works when you put a setuptools
+   ``.egg`` alongside it for bootstrapping an offline machine.
+
+ * A writable installation directory on ``sys.path`` is no longer required to
+   download and extract a source distribution using ``--editable``.
+
+ * Generated scripts now use ``-x`` on the ``#!`` line when ``sys.executable``
+   contains non-ASCII characters, to prevent deprecation warnings about an
+   unspecified encoding when the script is run.
+
+0.6c1
+ * EasyInstall now includes setuptools version information in the
+   ``User-Agent`` string sent to websites it visits.
+
+0.6b4
+ * Fix creating Python wrappers for non-Python scripts
+
+ * Fix ``ftp://`` directory listing URLs from causing a crash when used in the
+   "Home page" or "Download URL" slots on PyPI.
+
+ * Fix ``sys.path_importer_cache`` not being updated when an existing zipfile
+   or directory is deleted/overwritten.
+
+ * Fix not recognizing HTML 404 pages from package indexes.
+
+ * Allow ``file://`` URLs to be used as a package index.  URLs that refer to
+   directories will use an internally-generated directory listing if there is
+   no ``index.html`` file in the directory.
+
+ * Allow external links in a package index to be specified using
+   ``rel="homepage"`` or ``rel="download"``, without needing the old
+   PyPI-specific visible markup.
+
+ * Suppressed warning message about possibly-misspelled project name, if an egg
+   or link for that project name has already been seen.
+
+0.6b3
+ * Fix local ``--find-links`` eggs not being copied except with
+   ``--always-copy``.
+
+ * Fix sometimes not detecting local packages installed outside of "site"
+   directories.
+
+ * Fix mysterious errors during initial ``setuptools`` install, caused by
+   ``ez_setup`` trying to run ``easy_install`` twice, due to a code fallthru
+   after deleting the egg from which it's running.
+
+0.6b2
+ * Don't install or update a ``site.py`` patch when installing to a
+   ``PYTHONPATH`` directory with ``--multi-version``, unless an
+   ``easy-install.pth`` file is already in use there.
+
+ * Construct ``.pth`` file paths in such a way that installing an egg whose
+   name begins with ``import`` doesn't cause a syntax error.
+
+ * Fixed a bogus warning message that wasn't updated since the 0.5 versions.
+
+0.6b1
+ * Better ambiguity management: accept ``#egg`` name/version even if processing
+   what appears to be a correctly-named distutils file, and ignore ``.egg``
+   files with no ``-``, since valid Python ``.egg`` files always have a version
+   number (but Scheme eggs often don't).
+
+ * Support ``file://`` links to directories in ``--find-links``, so that
+   easy_install can build packages from local source checkouts.
+
+ * Added automatic retry for Sourceforge mirrors.  The new download process is
+   to first just try dl.sourceforge.net, then randomly select mirror IPs and
+   remove ones that fail, until something works.  The removed IPs stay removed
+   for the remainder of the run.
+
+ * Ignore bdist_dumb distributions when looking at download URLs.
+
+0.6a11
+ * Process ``dependency_links.txt`` if found in a distribution, by adding the
+   URLs to the list for scanning.
+
+ * Use relative paths in ``.pth`` files when eggs are being installed to the
+   same directory as the ``.pth`` file.  This maximizes portability of the
+   target directory when building applications that contain eggs.
+
+ * Added ``easy_install-N.N`` script(s) for convenience when using multiple
+   Python versions.
+
+ * Added automatic handling of installation conflicts.  Eggs are now shifted to
+   the front of sys.path, in an order consistent with where they came from,
+   making EasyInstall seamlessly co-operate with system package managers.
+
+   The ``--delete-conflicting`` and ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk`` options
+   are now no longer necessary, and will generate warnings at the end of a
+   run if you use them.
+
+ * Don't recursively traverse subdirectories given to ``--find-links``.
+
+0.6a10
+ * Added exhaustive testing of the install directory, including a spawn test
+   for ``.pth`` file support, and directory writability/existence checks.  This
+   should virtually eliminate the need to set or configure ``--site-dirs``.
+
+ * Added ``--prefix`` option for more do-what-I-mean-ishness in the absence of
+   RTFM-ing.  :)
+
+ * Enhanced ``PYTHONPATH`` support so that you don't have to put any eggs on it
+   manually to make it work.  ``--multi-version`` is no longer a silent
+   default; you must explicitly use it if installing to a non-PYTHONPATH,
+   non-"site" directory.
+
+ * Expand ``$variables`` used in the ``--site-dirs``, ``--build-directory``,
+   ``--install-dir``, and ``--script-dir`` options, whether on the command line
+   or in configuration files.
+
+ * Improved SourceForge mirror processing to work faster and be less affected
+   by transient HTML changes made by SourceForge.
+
+ * PyPI searches now use the exact spelling of requirements specified on the
+   command line or in a project's ``install_requires``.  Previously, a
+   normalized form of the name was used, which could lead to unnecessary
+   full-index searches when a project's name had an underscore (``_``) in it.
+
+ * EasyInstall can now download bare ``.py`` files and wrap them in an egg,
+   as long as you include an ``#egg=name-version`` suffix on the URL, or if
+   the ``.py`` file is listed as the "Download URL" on the project's PyPI page.
+   This allows third parties to "package" trivial Python modules just by
+   linking to them (e.g. from within their own PyPI page or download links
+   page).
+
+ * The ``--always-copy`` option now skips "system" and "development" eggs since
+   they can't be reliably copied.  Note that this may cause EasyInstall to
+   choose an older version of a package than what you expected, or it may cause
+   downloading and installation of a fresh version of what's already installed.
+
+ * The ``--find-links`` option previously scanned all supplied URLs and
+   directories as early as possible, but now only directories and direct
+   archive links are scanned immediately.  URLs are not retrieved unless a
+   package search was already going to go online due to a package not being
+   available locally, or due to the use of the ``--update`` or ``-U`` option.
+
+ * Fixed the annoying ``--help-commands`` wart.
+
+0.6a9
+ * Fixed ``.pth`` file processing picking up nested eggs (i.e. ones inside
+   "baskets") when they weren't explicitly listed in the ``.pth`` file.
+
+ * If more than one URL appears to describe the exact same distribution, prefer
+   the shortest one.  This helps to avoid "table of contents" CGI URLs like the
+   ones on effbot.org.
+
+ * Quote arguments to python.exe (including python's path) to avoid problems
+   when Python (or a script) is installed in a directory whose name contains
+   spaces on Windows.
+
+ * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
+   format.  Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
+   egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
+   and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
+   back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
+
+0.6a8
+ * Update for changed SourceForge mirror format
+
+ * Fixed not installing dependencies for some packages fetched via Subversion
+
+ * Fixed dependency installation with ``--always-copy`` not using the same
+   dependency resolution procedure as other operations.
+
+ * Fixed not fully removing temporary directories on Windows, if a Subversion
+   checkout left read-only files behind
+
+ * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
+   with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
+
+0.6a7
+ * Fixed not being able to install Windows script wrappers using Python 2.3
+
+0.6a6
+ * Added support for "traditional" PYTHONPATH-based non-root installation, and
+   also the convenient ``virtual-python.py`` script, based on a contribution
+   by Ian Bicking.  The setuptools egg now contains a hacked ``site`` module
+   that makes the PYTHONPATH-based approach work with .pth files, so that you
+   can get the full EasyInstall feature set on such installations.
+
+ * Added ``--no-deps`` and ``--allow-hosts`` options.
+
+ * Improved Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers so that the script can have the
+   same name as a module without confusing Python.
+
+ * Changed dependency processing so that it's breadth-first, allowing a
+   depender's preferences to override those of a dependee, to prevent conflicts
+   when a lower version is acceptable to the dependee, but not the depender.
+   Also, ensure that currently installed/selected packages aren't given
+   precedence over ones desired by a package being installed, which could
+   cause conflict errors.
+
+0.6a3
+ * Improved error message when trying to use old ways of running
+   ``easy_install``.  Removed the ability to run via ``python -m`` or by
+   running ``easy_install.py``; ``easy_install`` is the command to run on all
+   supported platforms.
+
+ * Improved wrapper script generation and runtime initialization so that a
+   VersionConflict doesn't occur if you later install a competing version of a
+   needed package as the default version of that package.
+
+ * Fixed a problem parsing version numbers in ``#egg=`` links.
+
+0.6a2
+ * EasyInstall can now install "console_scripts" defined by packages that use
+   ``setuptools`` and define appropriate entry points.  On Windows, console
+   scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name.  On other
+   platforms, the scripts are installed without a file extension.
+
+ * Using ``python -m easy_install`` or running ``easy_install.py`` is now
+   DEPRECATED, since an ``easy_install`` wrapper is now available on all
+   platforms.
+
+0.6a1
+ * EasyInstall now does MD5 validation of downloads from PyPI, or from any link
+   that has an "#md5=..." trailer with a 32-digit lowercase hex md5 digest.
+
+ * EasyInstall now handles symlinks in target directories by removing the link,
+   rather than attempting to overwrite the link's destination.  This makes it
+   easier to set up an alternate Python "home" directory (as described above in
+   the `Non-Root Installation`_ section).
+
+ * Added support for handling MacOS platform information in ``.egg`` filenames,
+   based on a contribution by Kevin Dangoor.  You may wish to delete and
+   reinstall any eggs whose filename includes "darwin" and "Power_Macintosh",
+   because the format for this platform information has changed so that minor
+   OS X upgrades (such as 10.4.1 to 10.4.2) do not cause eggs built with a
+   previous OS version to become obsolete.
+
+ * easy_install's dependency processing algorithms have changed.  When using
+   ``--always-copy``, it now ensures that dependencies are copied too.  When
+   not using ``--always-copy``, it tries to use a single resolution loop,
+   rather than recursing.
+
+ * Fixed installing extra ``.pyc`` or ``.pyo`` files for scripts with ``.py``
+   extensions.
+
+ * Added ``--site-dirs`` option to allow adding custom "site" directories.
+   Made ``easy-install.pth`` work in platform-specific alternate site
+   directories (e.g. ``~/Library/Python/2.x/site-packages`` on Mac OS X).
+
+ * If you manually delete the current version of a package, the next run of
+   EasyInstall against the target directory will now remove the stray entry
+   from the ``easy-install.pth`` file.
+
+ * EasyInstall now recognizes URLs with a ``#egg=project_name`` fragment ID
+   as pointing to the named project's source checkout.  Such URLs have a lower
+   match precedence than any other kind of distribution, so they'll only be
+   used if they have a higher version number than any other available
+   distribution, or if you use the ``--editable`` option.  The ``#egg``
+   fragment can contain a version if it's formatted as ``#egg=proj-ver``,
+   where ``proj`` is the project name, and ``ver`` is the version number.  You
+   *must* use the format for these values that the ``bdist_egg`` command uses;
+   i.e., all non-alphanumeric runs must be condensed to single underscore
+   characters.
+
+ * Added the ``--editable`` option; see `Editing and Viewing Source Packages`_
+   above for more info.  Also, slightly changed the behavior of the
+   ``--build-directory`` option.
+
+ * Fixed the setup script sandbox facility not recognizing certain paths as
+   valid on case-insensitive platforms.
+
+0.5a12
+ * Fix ``python -m easy_install`` not working due to setuptools being installed
+   as a zipfile.  Update safety scanner to check for modules that might be used
+   as ``python -m`` scripts.
+
+ * Misc. fixes for win32.exe support, including changes to support Python 2.4's
+   changed ``bdist_wininst`` format.
+
+0.5a10
+ * Put the ``easy_install`` module back in as a module, as it's needed for
+   ``python -m`` to run it!
+
+ * Allow ``--find-links/-f`` to accept local directories or filenames as well
+   as URLs.
+
+0.5a9
+ * EasyInstall now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package or
+   module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package you're installing,
+   thereby preventing the newer version from being imported.  By default, it
+   will abort installation to alert you of the problem, but there are also
+   new options (``--delete-conflicting`` and ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk``)
+   available to change the default behavior.  (Note: this new feature doesn't
+   take effect for egg files that were built with older ``setuptools``
+   versions, because they lack the new metadata file required to implement it.)
+
+ * The ``easy_install`` distutils command now uses ``DistutilsError`` as its
+   base error type for errors that should just issue a message to stderr and
+   exit the program without a traceback.
+
+ * EasyInstall can now be given a path to a directory containing a setup
+   script, and it will attempt to build and install the package there.
+
+ * EasyInstall now performs a safety analysis on module contents to determine
+   whether a package is likely to run in zipped form, and displays
+   information about what modules may be doing introspection that would break
+   when running as a zipfile.
+
+ * Added the ``--always-unzip/-Z`` option, to force unzipping of packages that
+   would ordinarily be considered safe to unzip, and changed the meaning of
+   ``--zip-ok/-z`` to "always leave everything zipped".
+
+0.5a8
+ * There is now a separate documentation page for `setuptools`_; revision
+   history that's not specific to EasyInstall has been moved to that page.
+
+ .. _setuptools: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
+
+0.5a5
+ * Made ``easy_install`` a standard ``setuptools`` command, moving it from
+   the ``easy_install`` module to ``setuptools.command.easy_install``.  Note
+   that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports
+   accordingly.  ``easy_install.py`` is still installed as a script, but not as
+   a module.
+
+0.5a4
+ * Added ``--always-copy/-a`` option to always copy needed packages to the
+   installation directory, even if they're already present elsewhere on
+   sys.path. (In previous versions, this was the default behavior, but now
+   you must request it.)
+
+ * Added ``--upgrade/-U`` option to force checking PyPI for latest available
+   version(s) of all packages requested by name and version, even if a matching
+   version is available locally.
+
+ * Added automatic installation of dependencies declared by a distribution
+   being installed.  These dependencies must be listed in the distribution's
+   ``EGG-INFO`` directory, so the distribution has to have declared its
+   dependencies by using setuptools.  If a package has requirements it didn't
+   declare, you'll still have to deal with them yourself.  (E.g., by asking
+   EasyInstall to find and install them.)
+
+ * Added the ``--record`` option to ``easy_install`` for the benefit of tools
+   that run ``setup.py install --record=filename`` on behalf of another
+   packaging system.)
+
+0.5a3
+ * Fixed not setting script permissions to allow execution.
+
+ * Improved sandboxing so that setup scripts that want a temporary directory
+   (e.g. pychecker) can still run in the sandbox.
+
+0.5a2
+ * Fix stupid stupid refactoring-at-the-last-minute typos.  :(
+
+0.5a1
+ * Added support for converting ``.win32.exe`` installers to eggs on the fly.
+   EasyInstall will now recognize such files by name and install them.
+
+ * Fixed a problem with picking the "best" version to install (versions were
+   being sorted as strings, rather than as parsed values)
+
+0.4a4
+ * Added support for the distutils "verbose/quiet" and "dry-run" options, as
+   well as the "optimize" flag.
+
+ * Support downloading packages that were uploaded to PyPI (by scanning all
+   links on package pages, not just the homepage/download links).
+
+0.4a3
+ * Add progress messages to the search/download process so that you can tell
+   what URLs it's reading to find download links.  (Hopefully, this will help
+   people report out-of-date and broken links to package authors, and to tell
+   when they've asked for a package that doesn't exist.)
+
+0.4a2
+ * Added support for installing scripts
+
+ * Added support for setting options via distutils configuration files, and
+   using distutils' default options as a basis for EasyInstall's defaults.
+
+ * Renamed ``--scan-url/-s`` to ``--find-links/-f`` to free up ``-s`` for the
+   script installation directory option.
+
+ * Use ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib``, to allow use of ``https:`` URLs if
+   Python includes SSL support.
+
+0.4a1
+ * Added ``--scan-url`` and ``--index-url`` options, to scan download pages
+   and search PyPI for needed packages.
+
+0.3a4
+ * Restrict ``--build-directory=DIR/-b DIR`` option to only be used with single
+   URL installs, to avoid running the wrong setup.py.
+
+0.3a3
+ * Added ``--build-directory=DIR/-b DIR`` option.
+
+ * Added "installation report" that explains how to use 'require()' when doing
+   a multiversion install or alternate installation directory.
+
+ * Added SourceForge mirror auto-select (Contributed by Ian Bicking)
+
+ * Added "sandboxing" that stops a setup script from running if it attempts to
+   write to the filesystem outside of the build area
+
+ * Added more workarounds for packages with quirky ``install_data`` hacks
+
+0.3a2
+ * Added subversion download support for ``svn:`` and ``svn+`` URLs, as well as
+   automatic recognition of HTTP subversion URLs (Contributed by Ian Bicking)
+
+ * Misc. bug fixes
+
+0.3a1
+ * Initial release.
+
+

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-
-Release Notes/Change History
-============================
-
-0.6final
- * Immediately close all file handles. This closes
-   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
-
-0.6c9
- * Fixed ``win32.exe`` support for .pth files, so unnecessary directory nesting
-   is flattened out in the resulting egg.  (There was a case-sensitivity
-   problem that affected some distributions, notably ``pywin32``.)
-
- * Prevent ``--help-commands`` and other junk from showing under Python 2.5
-   when running ``easy_install --help``.
-
- * Fixed GUI scripts sometimes not executing on Windows
-
- * Fixed not picking up dependency links from recursive dependencies.
-
- * Only make ``.py``, ``.dll`` and ``.so`` files executable when unpacking eggs
-
- * Changes for Jython compatibility
-
- * Improved error message when a requirement is also a directory name, but the
-   specified directory is not a source package.
-
- * Fixed ``--allow-hosts`` option blocking ``file:`` URLs
-
- * Fixed HTTP SVN detection failing when the page title included a project
-   name (e.g. on SourceForge-hosted SVN)
-
- * Fix Jython script installation to handle ``#!`` lines better when
-   ``sys.executable`` is a script.
-
- * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
-
- * Keep site directories (e.g. ``site-packages``) from being included in
-   ``.pth`` files.
-
-0.6c7
- * ``ftp:`` download URLs now work correctly.
-
- * The default ``--index-url`` is now ``http://pypi.python.org/simple``, to use
-   the Python Package Index's new simpler (and faster!) REST API.
-
-0.6c6
- * EasyInstall no longer aborts the installation process if a URL it wants to
-   retrieve can't be downloaded, unless the URL is an actual package download.
-   Instead, it issues a warning and tries to keep going.
-
- * Fixed distutils-style scripts originally built on Windows having their line
-   endings doubled when installed on any platform.
-
- * Added ``--local-snapshots-ok`` flag, to allow building eggs from projects
-   installed using ``setup.py develop``.
-
- * Fixed not HTML-decoding URLs scraped from web pages
-  
-0.6c5
- * Fixed ``.dll`` files on Cygwin not having executable permisions when an egg
-   is installed unzipped.
-
-0.6c4
- * Added support for HTTP "Basic" authentication using ``http://user:pass@host``
-   URLs.  If a password-protected page contains links to the same host (and
-   protocol), those links will inherit the credentials used to access the
-   original page.
-
- * Removed all special support for Sourceforge mirrors, as Sourceforge's
-   mirror system now works well for non-browser downloads.
-
- * Fixed not recognizing ``win32.exe`` installers that included a custom
-   bitmap.
-
- * Fixed not allowing ``os.open()`` of paths outside the sandbox, even if they
-   are opened read-only (e.g. reading ``/dev/urandom`` for random numbers, as
-   is done by ``os.urandom()`` on some platforms).
-
- * Fixed a problem with ``.pth`` testing on Windows when ``sys.executable``
-   has a space in it (e.g., the user installed Python to a ``Program Files``
-   directory).
-
-0.6c3
- * You can once again use "python -m easy_install" with Python 2.4 and above.
-
- * Python 2.5 compatibility fixes added.
-
-0.6c2
- * Windows script wrappers now support quoted arguments and arguments
-   containing spaces.  (Patch contributed by Jim Fulton.)
-
- * The ``ez_setup.py`` script now actually works when you put a setuptools
-   ``.egg`` alongside it for bootstrapping an offline machine.
-
- * A writable installation directory on ``sys.path`` is no longer required to
-   download and extract a source distribution using ``--editable``.
-
- * Generated scripts now use ``-x`` on the ``#!`` line when ``sys.executable``
-   contains non-ASCII characters, to prevent deprecation warnings about an
-   unspecified encoding when the script is run.
-
-0.6c1
- * EasyInstall now includes setuptools version information in the
-   ``User-Agent`` string sent to websites it visits.
-
-0.6b4
- * Fix creating Python wrappers for non-Python scripts
-
- * Fix ``ftp://`` directory listing URLs from causing a crash when used in the
-   "Home page" or "Download URL" slots on PyPI.
-
- * Fix ``sys.path_importer_cache`` not being updated when an existing zipfile
-   or directory is deleted/overwritten.
-
- * Fix not recognizing HTML 404 pages from package indexes.
-
- * Allow ``file://`` URLs to be used as a package index.  URLs that refer to
-   directories will use an internally-generated directory listing if there is
-   no ``index.html`` file in the directory.
-
- * Allow external links in a package index to be specified using
-   ``rel="homepage"`` or ``rel="download"``, without needing the old
-   PyPI-specific visible markup.
-
- * Suppressed warning message about possibly-misspelled project name, if an egg
-   or link for that project name has already been seen.
-
-0.6b3
- * Fix local ``--find-links`` eggs not being copied except with
-   ``--always-copy``.
-
- * Fix sometimes not detecting local packages installed outside of "site"
-   directories.
-
- * Fix mysterious errors during initial ``setuptools`` install, caused by
-   ``ez_setup`` trying to run ``easy_install`` twice, due to a code fallthru
-   after deleting the egg from which it's running.
-
-0.6b2
- * Don't install or update a ``site.py`` patch when installing to a
-   ``PYTHONPATH`` directory with ``--multi-version``, unless an
-   ``easy-install.pth`` file is already in use there.
-
- * Construct ``.pth`` file paths in such a way that installing an egg whose
-   name begins with ``import`` doesn't cause a syntax error.
-
- * Fixed a bogus warning message that wasn't updated since the 0.5 versions.
-
-0.6b1
- * Better ambiguity management: accept ``#egg`` name/version even if processing
-   what appears to be a correctly-named distutils file, and ignore ``.egg``
-   files with no ``-``, since valid Python ``.egg`` files always have a version
-   number (but Scheme eggs often don't).
-
- * Support ``file://`` links to directories in ``--find-links``, so that
-   easy_install can build packages from local source checkouts.
-
- * Added automatic retry for Sourceforge mirrors.  The new download process is
-   to first just try dl.sourceforge.net, then randomly select mirror IPs and
-   remove ones that fail, until something works.  The removed IPs stay removed
-   for the remainder of the run.
-
- * Ignore bdist_dumb distributions when looking at download URLs.
-
-0.6a11
- * Process ``dependency_links.txt`` if found in a distribution, by adding the
-   URLs to the list for scanning.
-
- * Use relative paths in ``.pth`` files when eggs are being installed to the
-   same directory as the ``.pth`` file.  This maximizes portability of the
-   target directory when building applications that contain eggs.
-
- * Added ``easy_install-N.N`` script(s) for convenience when using multiple
-   Python versions.
-
- * Added automatic handling of installation conflicts.  Eggs are now shifted to
-   the front of sys.path, in an order consistent with where they came from,
-   making EasyInstall seamlessly co-operate with system package managers.
-
-   The ``--delete-conflicting`` and ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk`` options
-   are now no longer necessary, and will generate warnings at the end of a
-   run if you use them.
-
- * Don't recursively traverse subdirectories given to ``--find-links``.
-
-0.6a10
- * Added exhaustive testing of the install directory, including a spawn test
-   for ``.pth`` file support, and directory writability/existence checks.  This
-   should virtually eliminate the need to set or configure ``--site-dirs``.
-
- * Added ``--prefix`` option for more do-what-I-mean-ishness in the absence of
-   RTFM-ing.  :)
-
- * Enhanced ``PYTHONPATH`` support so that you don't have to put any eggs on it
-   manually to make it work.  ``--multi-version`` is no longer a silent
-   default; you must explicitly use it if installing to a non-PYTHONPATH,
-   non-"site" directory.
-
- * Expand ``$variables`` used in the ``--site-dirs``, ``--build-directory``,
-   ``--install-dir``, and ``--script-dir`` options, whether on the command line
-   or in configuration files.
-
- * Improved SourceForge mirror processing to work faster and be less affected
-   by transient HTML changes made by SourceForge.
-
- * PyPI searches now use the exact spelling of requirements specified on the
-   command line or in a project's ``install_requires``.  Previously, a
-   normalized form of the name was used, which could lead to unnecessary
-   full-index searches when a project's name had an underscore (``_``) in it.
-
- * EasyInstall can now download bare ``.py`` files and wrap them in an egg,
-   as long as you include an ``#egg=name-version`` suffix on the URL, or if
-   the ``.py`` file is listed as the "Download URL" on the project's PyPI page.
-   This allows third parties to "package" trivial Python modules just by
-   linking to them (e.g. from within their own PyPI page or download links
-   page).
-
- * The ``--always-copy`` option now skips "system" and "development" eggs since
-   they can't be reliably copied.  Note that this may cause EasyInstall to
-   choose an older version of a package than what you expected, or it may cause
-   downloading and installation of a fresh version of what's already installed.
-
- * The ``--find-links`` option previously scanned all supplied URLs and
-   directories as early as possible, but now only directories and direct
-   archive links are scanned immediately.  URLs are not retrieved unless a
-   package search was already going to go online due to a package not being
-   available locally, or due to the use of the ``--update`` or ``-U`` option.
-
- * Fixed the annoying ``--help-commands`` wart.
-
-0.6a9
- * Fixed ``.pth`` file processing picking up nested eggs (i.e. ones inside
-   "baskets") when they weren't explicitly listed in the ``.pth`` file.
-
- * If more than one URL appears to describe the exact same distribution, prefer
-   the shortest one.  This helps to avoid "table of contents" CGI URLs like the
-   ones on effbot.org.
-
- * Quote arguments to python.exe (including python's path) to avoid problems
-   when Python (or a script) is installed in a directory whose name contains
-   spaces on Windows.
-
- * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
-   format.  Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
-   egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
-   and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
-   back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
-
-0.6a8
- * Update for changed SourceForge mirror format
-
- * Fixed not installing dependencies for some packages fetched via Subversion
-
- * Fixed dependency installation with ``--always-copy`` not using the same
-   dependency resolution procedure as other operations.
-
- * Fixed not fully removing temporary directories on Windows, if a Subversion
-   checkout left read-only files behind
-
- * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
-   with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
-
-0.6a7
- * Fixed not being able to install Windows script wrappers using Python 2.3
-
-0.6a6
- * Added support for "traditional" PYTHONPATH-based non-root installation, and
-   also the convenient ``virtual-python.py`` script, based on a contribution
-   by Ian Bicking.  The setuptools egg now contains a hacked ``site`` module
-   that makes the PYTHONPATH-based approach work with .pth files, so that you
-   can get the full EasyInstall feature set on such installations.
-
- * Added ``--no-deps`` and ``--allow-hosts`` options.
-
- * Improved Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers so that the script can have the
-   same name as a module without confusing Python.
-
- * Changed dependency processing so that it's breadth-first, allowing a
-   depender's preferences to override those of a dependee, to prevent conflicts
-   when a lower version is acceptable to the dependee, but not the depender.
-   Also, ensure that currently installed/selected packages aren't given
-   precedence over ones desired by a package being installed, which could
-   cause conflict errors.
-
-0.6a3
- * Improved error message when trying to use old ways of running
-   ``easy_install``.  Removed the ability to run via ``python -m`` or by
-   running ``easy_install.py``; ``easy_install`` is the command to run on all
-   supported platforms.
-
- * Improved wrapper script generation and runtime initialization so that a
-   VersionConflict doesn't occur if you later install a competing version of a
-   needed package as the default version of that package.
-
- * Fixed a problem parsing version numbers in ``#egg=`` links.
-
-0.6a2
- * EasyInstall can now install "console_scripts" defined by packages that use
-   ``setuptools`` and define appropriate entry points.  On Windows, console
-   scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name.  On other
-   platforms, the scripts are installed without a file extension.
-
- * Using ``python -m easy_install`` or running ``easy_install.py`` is now
-   DEPRECATED, since an ``easy_install`` wrapper is now available on all
-   platforms.
-
-0.6a1
- * EasyInstall now does MD5 validation of downloads from PyPI, or from any link
-   that has an "#md5=..." trailer with a 32-digit lowercase hex md5 digest.
-
- * EasyInstall now handles symlinks in target directories by removing the link,
-   rather than attempting to overwrite the link's destination.  This makes it
-   easier to set up an alternate Python "home" directory (as described above in
-   the `Non-Root Installation`_ section).
-
- * Added support for handling MacOS platform information in ``.egg`` filenames,
-   based on a contribution by Kevin Dangoor.  You may wish to delete and
-   reinstall any eggs whose filename includes "darwin" and "Power_Macintosh",
-   because the format for this platform information has changed so that minor
-   OS X upgrades (such as 10.4.1 to 10.4.2) do not cause eggs built with a
-   previous OS version to become obsolete.
-
- * easy_install's dependency processing algorithms have changed.  When using
-   ``--always-copy``, it now ensures that dependencies are copied too.  When
-   not using ``--always-copy``, it tries to use a single resolution loop,
-   rather than recursing.
-
- * Fixed installing extra ``.pyc`` or ``.pyo`` files for scripts with ``.py``
-   extensions.
-
- * Added ``--site-dirs`` option to allow adding custom "site" directories.
-   Made ``easy-install.pth`` work in platform-specific alternate site
-   directories (e.g. ``~/Library/Python/2.x/site-packages`` on Mac OS X).
-
- * If you manually delete the current version of a package, the next run of
-   EasyInstall against the target directory will now remove the stray entry
-   from the ``easy-install.pth`` file.
-
- * EasyInstall now recognizes URLs with a ``#egg=project_name`` fragment ID
-   as pointing to the named project's source checkout.  Such URLs have a lower
-   match precedence than any other kind of distribution, so they'll only be
-   used if they have a higher version number than any other available
-   distribution, or if you use the ``--editable`` option.  The ``#egg``
-   fragment can contain a version if it's formatted as ``#egg=proj-ver``,
-   where ``proj`` is the project name, and ``ver`` is the version number.  You
-   *must* use the format for these values that the ``bdist_egg`` command uses;
-   i.e., all non-alphanumeric runs must be condensed to single underscore
-   characters.
-
- * Added the ``--editable`` option; see `Editing and Viewing Source Packages`_
-   above for more info.  Also, slightly changed the behavior of the
-   ``--build-directory`` option.
-
- * Fixed the setup script sandbox facility not recognizing certain paths as
-   valid on case-insensitive platforms.
-
-0.5a12
- * Fix ``python -m easy_install`` not working due to setuptools being installed
-   as a zipfile.  Update safety scanner to check for modules that might be used
-   as ``python -m`` scripts.
-
- * Misc. fixes for win32.exe support, including changes to support Python 2.4's
-   changed ``bdist_wininst`` format.
-
-0.5a10
- * Put the ``easy_install`` module back in as a module, as it's needed for
-   ``python -m`` to run it!
-
- * Allow ``--find-links/-f`` to accept local directories or filenames as well
-   as URLs.
-
-0.5a9
- * EasyInstall now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package or
-   module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package you're installing,
-   thereby preventing the newer version from being imported.  By default, it
-   will abort installation to alert you of the problem, but there are also
-   new options (``--delete-conflicting`` and ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk``)
-   available to change the default behavior.  (Note: this new feature doesn't
-   take effect for egg files that were built with older ``setuptools``
-   versions, because they lack the new metadata file required to implement it.)
-
- * The ``easy_install`` distutils command now uses ``DistutilsError`` as its
-   base error type for errors that should just issue a message to stderr and
-   exit the program without a traceback.
-
- * EasyInstall can now be given a path to a directory containing a setup
-   script, and it will attempt to build and install the package there.
-
- * EasyInstall now performs a safety analysis on module contents to determine
-   whether a package is likely to run in zipped form, and displays
-   information about what modules may be doing introspection that would break
-   when running as a zipfile.
-
- * Added the ``--always-unzip/-Z`` option, to force unzipping of packages that
-   would ordinarily be considered safe to unzip, and changed the meaning of
-   ``--zip-ok/-z`` to "always leave everything zipped".
-
-0.5a8
- * There is now a separate documentation page for `setuptools`_; revision
-   history that's not specific to EasyInstall has been moved to that page.
-
- .. _setuptools: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
-
-0.5a5
- * Made ``easy_install`` a standard ``setuptools`` command, moving it from
-   the ``easy_install`` module to ``setuptools.command.easy_install``.  Note
-   that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports
-   accordingly.  ``easy_install.py`` is still installed as a script, but not as
-   a module.
-
-0.5a4
- * Added ``--always-copy/-a`` option to always copy needed packages to the
-   installation directory, even if they're already present elsewhere on
-   sys.path. (In previous versions, this was the default behavior, but now
-   you must request it.)
-
- * Added ``--upgrade/-U`` option to force checking PyPI for latest available
-   version(s) of all packages requested by name and version, even if a matching
-   version is available locally.
-
- * Added automatic installation of dependencies declared by a distribution
-   being installed.  These dependencies must be listed in the distribution's
-   ``EGG-INFO`` directory, so the distribution has to have declared its
-   dependencies by using setuptools.  If a package has requirements it didn't
-   declare, you'll still have to deal with them yourself.  (E.g., by asking
-   EasyInstall to find and install them.)
-
- * Added the ``--record`` option to ``easy_install`` for the benefit of tools
-   that run ``setup.py install --record=filename`` on behalf of another
-   packaging system.)
-
-0.5a3
- * Fixed not setting script permissions to allow execution.
-
- * Improved sandboxing so that setup scripts that want a temporary directory
-   (e.g. pychecker) can still run in the sandbox.
-
-0.5a2
- * Fix stupid stupid refactoring-at-the-last-minute typos.  :(
-
-0.5a1
- * Added support for converting ``.win32.exe`` installers to eggs on the fly.
-   EasyInstall will now recognize such files by name and install them.
-
- * Fixed a problem with picking the "best" version to install (versions were
-   being sorted as strings, rather than as parsed values)
-
-0.4a4
- * Added support for the distutils "verbose/quiet" and "dry-run" options, as
-   well as the "optimize" flag.
-
- * Support downloading packages that were uploaded to PyPI (by scanning all
-   links on package pages, not just the homepage/download links).
-
-0.4a3
- * Add progress messages to the search/download process so that you can tell
-   what URLs it's reading to find download links.  (Hopefully, this will help
-   people report out-of-date and broken links to package authors, and to tell
-   when they've asked for a package that doesn't exist.)
-
-0.4a2
- * Added support for installing scripts
-
- * Added support for setting options via distutils configuration files, and
-   using distutils' default options as a basis for EasyInstall's defaults.
-
- * Renamed ``--scan-url/-s`` to ``--find-links/-f`` to free up ``-s`` for the
-   script installation directory option.
-
- * Use ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib``, to allow use of ``https:`` URLs if
-   Python includes SSL support.
-
-0.4a1
- * Added ``--scan-url`` and ``--index-url`` options, to scan download pages
-   and search PyPI for needed packages.
-
-0.3a4
- * Restrict ``--build-directory=DIR/-b DIR`` option to only be used with single
-   URL installs, to avoid running the wrong setup.py.
-
-0.3a3
- * Added ``--build-directory=DIR/-b DIR`` option.
-
- * Added "installation report" that explains how to use 'require()' when doing
-   a multiversion install or alternate installation directory.
-
- * Added SourceForge mirror auto-select (Contributed by Ian Bicking)
-
- * Added "sandboxing" that stops a setup script from running if it attempts to
-   write to the filesystem outside of the build area
-
- * Added more workarounds for packages with quirky ``install_data`` hacks
-
-0.3a2
- * Added subversion download support for ``svn:`` and ``svn+`` URLs, as well as
-   automatic recognition of HTTP subversion URLs (Contributed by Ian Bicking)
-
- * Misc. bug fixes
-
-0.3a1
- * Initial release.
-
-
 Future Plans
 ============
 

pkg_resources.txt

@@ -1690,277 +1690,3 @@ File/Path Utilities
     reflect the platform's case-sensitivity, so there is always the possibility
     of two apparently-different paths being equal on such platforms.
 
-
-----------------------------
-Release Notes/Change History
-----------------------------
-
-0.6final
- * Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail gracefully.
-   This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/9.
-
- * Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry.
-   This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/8.
-
- * Immediately close all file handles. This closes
-   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
-
-0.6c9
- * Fix ``resource_listdir('')`` always returning an empty list for zipped eggs.
-
-0.6c7
- * Fix package precedence problem where single-version eggs installed in
-   ``site-packages`` would take precedence over ``.egg`` files (or directories)
-   installed in ``site-packages``.
-
-0.6c6
- * Fix extracted C extensions not having executable permissions under Cygwin.
-
- * Allow ``.egg-link`` files to contain relative paths.
-
- * Fix cache dir defaults on Windows when multiple environment vars are needed
-   to construct a path.
- 
-0.6c4
- * Fix "dev" versions being considered newer than release candidates.
-
-0.6c3
- * Python 2.5 compatibility fixes.
-
-0.6c2
- * Fix a problem with eggs specified directly on ``PYTHONPATH`` on
-   case-insensitive filesystems possibly not showing up in the default
-   working set, due to differing normalizations of ``sys.path`` entries.
-
-0.6b3
- * Fixed a duplicate path insertion problem on case-insensitive filesystems.
-
-0.6b1
- * Split ``get_platform()`` into ``get_supported_platform()`` and
-   ``get_build_platform()`` to work around a Mac versioning problem that caused
-   the behavior of ``compatible_platforms()`` to be platform specific.
-
- * Fix entry point parsing when a standalone module name has whitespace
-   between it and the extras.
-
-0.6a11
- * Added ``ExtractionError`` and ``ResourceManager.extraction_error()`` so that
-   cache permission problems get a more user-friendly explanation of the
-   problem, and so that programs can catch and handle extraction errors if they
-   need to.
-
-0.6a10
- * Added the ``extras`` attribute to ``Distribution``, the ``find_plugins()``
-   method to ``WorkingSet``, and the ``__add__()`` and ``__iadd__()`` methods
-   to ``Environment``.
-
- * ``safe_name()`` now allows dots in project names.
-
- * There is a new ``to_filename()`` function that escapes project names and
-   versions for safe use in constructing egg filenames from a Distribution
-   object's metadata.
-
- * Added ``Distribution.clone()`` method, and keyword argument support to other
-   ``Distribution`` constructors.
-
- * Added the ``DEVELOP_DIST`` precedence, and automatically assign it to
-   eggs using ``.egg-info`` format.
-
-0.6a9
- * Don't raise an error when an invalid (unfinished) distribution is found
-   unless absolutely necessary.  Warn about skipping invalid/unfinished eggs
-   when building an Environment.
-
- * Added support for ``.egg-info`` files or directories with version/platform
-   information embedded in the filename, so that system packagers have the
-   option of including ``PKG-INFO`` files to indicate the presence of a
-   system-installed egg, without needing to use ``.egg`` directories, zipfiles,
-   or ``.pth`` manipulation.
-
- * Changed ``parse_version()`` to remove dashes before pre-release tags, so
-   that ``0.2-rc1`` is considered an *older* version than ``0.2``, and is equal
-   to ``0.2rc1``.  The idea that a dash *always* meant a post-release version
-   was highly non-intuitive to setuptools users and Python developers, who
-   seem to want to use ``-rc`` version numbers a lot.
-
-0.6a8
- * Fixed a problem with ``WorkingSet.resolve()`` that prevented version
-   conflicts from being detected at runtime.
-
- * Improved runtime conflict warning message to identify a line in the user's
-   program, rather than flagging the ``warn()`` call in ``pkg_resources``.
-
- * Avoid giving runtime conflict warnings for namespace packages, even if they
-   were declared by a different package than the one currently being activated.
-
- * Fix path insertion algorithm for case-insensitive filesystems.
-
- * Fixed a problem with nested namespace packages (e.g. ``peak.util``) not
-   being set as an attribute of their parent package.
-
-0.6a6
- * Activated distributions are now inserted in ``sys.path`` (and the working
-   set) just before the directory that contains them, instead of at the end.
-   This allows e.g. eggs in ``site-packages`` to override unmanaged modules in
-   the same location, and allows eggs found earlier on ``sys.path`` to override
-   ones found later.
-
- * When a distribution is activated, it now checks whether any contained
-   non-namespace modules have already been imported and issues a warning if
-   a conflicting module has already been imported.
-
- * Changed dependency processing so that it's breadth-first, allowing a
-   depender's preferences to override those of a dependee, to prevent conflicts
-   when a lower version is acceptable to the dependee, but not the depender.
-
- * Fixed a problem extracting zipped files on Windows, when the egg in question
-   has had changed contents but still has the same version number.
-
-0.6a4
- * Fix a bug in ``WorkingSet.resolve()`` that was introduced in 0.6a3.
-
-0.6a3
- * Added ``safe_extra()`` parsing utility routine, and use it for Requirement,
-   EntryPoint, and Distribution objects' extras handling.
-
-0.6a1
- * Enhanced performance of ``require()`` and related operations when all
-   requirements are already in the working set, and enhanced performance of
-   directory scanning for distributions.
-
- * Fixed some problems using ``pkg_resources`` w/PEP 302 loaders other than
-   ``zipimport``, and the previously-broken "eager resource" support.
-
- * Fixed ``pkg_resources.resource_exists()`` not working correctly, along with
-   some other resource API bugs.
-
- * Many API changes and enhancements:
-
-   * Added ``EntryPoint``, ``get_entry_map``, ``load_entry_point``, and
-     ``get_entry_info`` APIs for dynamic plugin discovery.
-
-   * ``list_resources`` is now ``resource_listdir`` (and it actually works)
-
-   * Resource API functions like ``resource_string()`` that accepted a package
-     name and resource name, will now also accept a ``Requirement`` object in
-     place of the package name (to allow access to non-package data files in
-     an egg).
-
-   * ``get_provider()`` will now accept a ``Requirement`` instance or a module
-     name.  If it is given a ``Requirement``, it will return a corresponding
-     ``Distribution`` (by calling ``require()`` if a suitable distribution
-     isn't already in the working set), rather than returning a metadata and
-     resource provider for a specific module.  (The difference is in how
-     resource paths are interpreted; supplying a module name means resources
-     path will be module-relative, rather than relative to the distribution's
-     root.)
-
-   * ``Distribution`` objects now implement the ``IResourceProvider`` and
-     ``IMetadataProvider`` interfaces, so you don't need to reference the (no
-     longer available) ``metadata`` attribute to get at these interfaces.
-
-   * ``Distribution`` and ``Requirement`` both have a ``project_name``
-     attribute for the project name they refer to.  (Previously these were
-     ``name`` and ``distname`` attributes.)
-
-   * The ``path`` attribute of ``Distribution`` objects is now ``location``,
-     because it isn't necessarily a filesystem path (and hasn't been for some
-     time now).  The ``location`` of ``Distribution`` objects in the filesystem
-     should always be normalized using ``pkg_resources.normalize_path()``; all
-     of the setuptools and EasyInstall code that generates distributions from
-     the filesystem (including ``Distribution.from_filename()``) ensure this
-     invariant, but if you use a more generic API like ``Distribution()`` or
-     ``Distribution.from_location()`` you should take care that you don't
-     create a distribution with an un-normalized filesystem path.
-
-   * ``Distribution`` objects now have an ``as_requirement()`` method that
-     returns a ``Requirement`` for the distribution's project name and version.
-
-   * Distribution objects no longer have an ``installed_on()`` method, and the
-     ``install_on()`` method is now ``activate()`` (but may go away altogether
-     soon).  The ``depends()`` method has also been renamed to ``requires()``,
-     and ``InvalidOption`` is now ``UnknownExtra``.
-
-   * ``find_distributions()`` now takes an additional argument called ``only``,
-     that tells it to only yield distributions whose location is the passed-in
-     path.  (It defaults to False, so that the default behavior is unchanged.)
-
-   * ``AvailableDistributions`` is now called ``Environment``, and the
-     ``get()``, ``__len__()``, and ``__contains__()`` methods were removed,
-     because they weren't particularly useful.  ``__getitem__()`` no longer
-     raises ``KeyError``; it just returns an empty list if there are no
-     distributions for the named project.
-
-   * The ``resolve()`` method of ``Environment`` is now a method of
-     ``WorkingSet`` instead, and the ``best_match()`` method now uses a working
-     set instead of a path list as its second argument.
-
-   * There is a new ``pkg_resources.add_activation_listener()`` API that lets
-     you register a callback for notifications about distributions added to
-     ``sys.path`` (including the distributions already on it).  This is
-     basically a hook for extensible applications and frameworks to be able to
-     search for plugin metadata in distributions added at runtime.
-
-0.5a13
- * Fixed a bug in resource extraction from nested packages in a zipped egg.
-
-0.5a12
- * Updated extraction/cache mechanism for zipped resources to avoid inter-
-   process and inter-thread races during extraction.  The default cache
-   location can now be set via the ``PYTHON_EGGS_CACHE`` environment variable,
-   and the default Windows cache is now a ``Python-Eggs`` subdirectory of the
-   current user's "Application Data" directory, if the ``PYTHON_EGGS_CACHE``
-   variable isn't set.
-
-0.5a10
- * Fix a problem with ``pkg_resources`` being confused by non-existent eggs on
-   ``sys.path`` (e.g. if a user deletes an egg without removing it from the
-   ``easy-install.pth`` file).
-
- * Fix a problem with "basket" support in ``pkg_resources``, where egg-finding
-   never actually went inside ``.egg`` files.
-
- * Made ``pkg_resources`` import the module you request resources from, if it's
-   not already imported.
-
-0.5a4
- * ``pkg_resources.AvailableDistributions.resolve()`` and related methods now
-   accept an ``installer`` argument: a callable taking one argument, a
-   ``Requirement`` instance.  The callable must return a ``Distribution``
-   object, or ``None`` if no distribution is found.  This feature is used by
-   EasyInstall to resolve dependencies by recursively invoking itself.
-
-0.4a4
- * Fix problems with ``resource_listdir()``, ``resource_isdir()`` and resource
-   directory extraction for zipped eggs.
-
-0.4a3
- * Fixed scripts not being able to see a ``__file__`` variable in ``__main__``
-
- * Fixed a problem with ``resource_isdir()`` implementation that was introduced
-   in 0.4a2.
-
-0.4a1
- * Fixed a bug in requirements processing for exact versions (i.e. ``==`` and
-   ``!=``) when only one condition was included.
-
- * Added ``safe_name()`` and ``safe_version()`` APIs to clean up handling of
-   arbitrary distribution names and versions found on PyPI.
-
-0.3a4
- * ``pkg_resources`` now supports resource directories, not just the resources
-   in them.  In particular, there are ``resource_listdir()`` and
-   ``resource_isdir()`` APIs.
-
- * ``pkg_resources`` now supports "egg baskets" -- .egg zipfiles which contain
-   multiple distributions in subdirectories whose names end with ``.egg``.
-   Having such a "basket" in a directory on ``sys.path`` is equivalent to
-   having the individual eggs in that directory, but the contained eggs can
-   be individually added (or not) to ``sys.path``.  Currently, however, there
-   is no automated way to create baskets.
-
- * Namespace package manipulation is now protected by the Python import lock.
-
-0.3a1
- * Initial release.
-

setuptools.txt

@@ -2607,519 +2607,6 @@ XXX
 XXX
 
 
-----------------------------
-Release Notes/Change History
-----------------------------
-
-0.6final
- * Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes
-   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/10.
-
- * Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes
-   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/7.
-
- * sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open. This
-   closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/6.
-
- * Immediately close all file handles. This closes
-   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
-
- * Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references
-   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/1.
-
-0.6c9
- * Fixed a missing files problem when using Windows source distributions on
-   non-Windows platforms, due to distutils not handling manifest file line
-   endings correctly.
-
- * Updated Pyrex support to work with Pyrex 0.9.6 and higher.
-
- * Minor changes for Jython compatibility, including skipping tests that can't
-   work on Jython.
-
- * Fixed not installing eggs in ``install_requires`` if they were also used for
-   ``setup_requires`` or ``tests_require``.
-
- * Fixed not fetching eggs in ``install_requires`` when running tests.
-
- * Allow ``ez_setup.use_setuptools()`` to upgrade existing setuptools
-   installations when called from a standalone ``setup.py``.
-
- * Added a warning if a namespace package is declared, but its parent package
-   is not also declared as a namespace.
-
- * Support Subversion 1.5
-
- * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
-
- * Fixed ``bdist_wininst upload`` trying to upload the ``.exe`` twice
-
- * Fixed ``bdist_egg`` putting a ``native_libs.txt`` in the source package's
-   ``.egg-info``, when it should only be in the built egg's ``EGG-INFO``.
-
- * Ensure that _full_name is set on all shared libs before extensions are
-   checked for shared lib usage.  (Fixes a bug in the experimental shared
-   library build support.)
-
- * Fix to allow unpacked eggs containing native libraries to fail more
-   gracefully under Google App Engine (with an ``ImportError`` loading the
-   C-based module, instead of getting a ``NameError``).
-
-0.6c7
- * Fixed ``distutils.filelist.findall()`` crashing on broken symlinks, and 
-   ``egg_info`` command failing on new, uncommitted SVN directories.
-
- * Fix import problems with nested namespace packages installed via
-   ``--root`` or ``--single-version-externally-managed``, due to the
-   parent package not having the child package as an attribute.
-
-0.6c6
- * Added ``--egg-path`` option to ``develop`` command, allowing you to force
-   ``.egg-link`` files to use relative paths (allowing them to be shared across
-   platforms on a networked drive).
-
- * Fix not building binary RPMs correctly.
-
- * Fix "eggsecutables" (such as setuptools' own egg) only being runnable with
-   bash-compatible shells.
-
- * Fix ``#!`` parsing problems in Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers, when there
-   was whitespace inside a quoted argument or at the end of the ``#!`` line
-   (a regression introduced in 0.6c4).
-
- * Fix ``test`` command possibly failing if an older version of the project
-   being tested was installed on ``sys.path`` ahead of the test source
-   directory.
-
- * Fix ``find_packages()`` treating ``ez_setup`` and directories with ``.`` in
-   their names as packages.
- 
-0.6c5
- * Fix uploaded ``bdist_rpm`` packages being described as ``bdist_egg``
-   packages under Python versions less than 2.5.
-
- * Fix uploaded ``bdist_wininst`` packages being described as suitable for
-   "any" version by Python 2.5, even if a ``--target-version`` was specified.
-
-0.6c4
- * Overhauled Windows script wrapping to support ``bdist_wininst`` better.
-   Scripts installed with ``bdist_wininst`` will always use ``#!python.exe`` or
-   ``#!pythonw.exe`` as the executable name (even when built on non-Windows
-   platforms!), and the wrappers will look for the executable in the script's
-   parent directory (which should find the right version of Python).
-
- * Fix ``upload`` command not uploading files built by ``bdist_rpm`` or
-   ``bdist_wininst`` under Python 2.3 and 2.4.
-
- * Add support for "eggsecutable" headers: a ``#!/bin/sh`` script that is
-   prepended to an ``.egg`` file to allow it to be run as a script on Unix-ish
-   platforms.  (This is mainly so that setuptools itself can have a single-file
-   installer on Unix, without doing multiple downloads, dealing with firewalls,
-   etc.)
-
- * Fix problem with empty revision numbers in Subversion 1.4 ``entries`` files
-
- * Use cross-platform relative paths in ``easy-install.pth`` when doing
-   ``develop`` and the source directory is a subdirectory of the installation
-   target directory.
-
- * Fix a problem installing eggs with a system packaging tool if the project
-   contained an implicit namespace package; for example if the ``setup()``
-   listed a namespace package ``foo.bar`` without explicitly listing ``foo``
-   as a namespace package.
-
-0.6c3
- * Fixed breakages caused by Subversion 1.4's new "working copy" format
-
-0.6c2
- * The ``ez_setup`` module displays the conflicting version of setuptools (and
-   its installation location) when a script requests a version that's not
-   available.
-
- * Running ``setup.py develop`` on a setuptools-using project will now install
-   setuptools if needed, instead of only downloading the egg.
-
-0.6c1
- * Fixed ``AttributeError`` when trying to download a ``setup_requires``
-   dependency when a distribution lacks a ``dependency_links`` setting.
-
- * Made ``zip-safe`` and ``not-zip-safe`` flag files contain a single byte, so
-   as to play better with packaging tools that complain about zero-length
-   files.
-
- * Made ``setup.py develop`` respect the ``--no-deps`` option, which it
-   previously was ignoring.
-
- * Support ``extra_path`` option to ``setup()`` when ``install`` is run in
-   backward-compatibility mode.
-
- * Source distributions now always include a ``setup.cfg`` file that explicitly
-   sets ``egg_info`` options such that they produce an identical version number
-   to the source distribution's version number.  (Previously, the default
-   version number could be different due to the use of ``--tag-date``, or if
-   the version was overridden on the command line that built the source
-   distribution.)
-
-0.6b4
- * Fix ``register`` not obeying name/version set by ``egg_info`` command, if
-   ``egg_info`` wasn't explicitly run first on the same command line.
-
- * Added ``--no-date`` and ``--no-svn-revision`` options to ``egg_info``
-   command, to allow suppressing tags configured in ``setup.cfg``.
-
- * Fixed redundant warnings about missing ``README`` file(s); it should now
-   appear only if you are actually a source distribution.
-
-0.6b3
- * Fix ``bdist_egg`` not including files in subdirectories of ``.egg-info``.
-
- * Allow ``.py`` files found by the ``include_package_data`` option to be
-   automatically included.  Remove duplicate data file matches if both
-   ``include_package_data`` and ``package_data`` are used to refer to the same
-   files.
-
-0.6b1
- * Strip ``module`` from the end of compiled extension modules when computing
-   the name of a ``.py`` loader/wrapper.  (Python's import machinery ignores
-   this suffix when searching for an extension module.)
-
-0.6a11
- * Added ``test_loader`` keyword to support custom test loaders
-
- * Added ``setuptools.file_finders`` entry point group to allow implementing
-   revision control plugins.
-
- * Added ``--identity`` option to ``upload`` command.
-
- * Added ``dependency_links`` to allow specifying URLs for ``--find-links``.
-
- * Enhanced test loader to scan packages as well as modules, and call
-   ``additional_tests()`` if present to get non-unittest tests.
-
- * Support namespace packages in conjunction with system packagers, by omitting
-   the installation of any ``__init__.py`` files for namespace packages, and
-   adding a special ``.pth`` file to create a working package in
-   ``sys.modules``.
-
- * Made ``--single-version-externally-managed`` automatic when ``--root`` is
-   used, so that most system packagers won't require special support for
-   setuptools.
-
- * Fixed ``setup_requires``, ``tests_require``, etc. not using ``setup.cfg`` or
-   other configuration files for their option defaults when installing, and
-   also made the install use ``--multi-version`` mode so that the project
-   directory doesn't need to support .pth files.
-
- * ``MANIFEST.in`` is now forcibly closed when any errors occur while reading
-   it.  Previously, the file could be left open and the actual error would be
-   masked by problems trying to remove the open file on Windows systems.
-
-0.6a10
- * Fixed the ``develop`` command ignoring ``--find-links``.
-
-0.6a9
- * The ``sdist`` command no longer uses the traditional ``MANIFEST`` file to
-   create source distributions.  ``MANIFEST.in`` is still read and processed,
-   as are the standard defaults and pruning.  But the manifest is built inside
-   the project's ``.egg-info`` directory as ``SOURCES.txt``, and it is rebuilt
-   every time the ``egg_info`` command is run.
-
- * Added the ``include_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
-   automatically include any package data listed in revision control or
-   ``MANIFEST.in``
-
- * Added the ``exclude_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
-   trim back files included via the ``package_data`` and
-   ``include_package_data`` options.
-
- * Fixed ``--tag-svn-revision`` not working when run from a source
-   distribution.
-
- * Added warning for namespace packages with missing ``declare_namespace()``
-
- * Added ``tests_require`` keyword to ``setup()``, so that e.g. packages
-   requiring ``nose`` to run unit tests can make this dependency optional
-   unless the ``test`` command is run.
-
- * Made all commands that use ``easy_install`` respect its configuration
-   options, as this was causing some problems with ``setup.py install``.
-
- * Added an ``unpack_directory()`` driver to ``setuptools.archive_util``, so
-   that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it
-   were a zipfile or tarfile.
-
- * Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style
-   ``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
-   package.
-
- * Added a ``--single-version-externally-managed`` option to the ``install``
-   command so that you can more easily wrap a "flat" egg in a system package.
-
- * Enhanced ``bdist_rpm`` so that it installs single-version eggs that
-   don't rely on a ``.pth`` file.  The ``--no-egg`` option has been removed,
-   since all RPMs are now built in a more backwards-compatible format.
-
- * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
-   format.  Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
-   egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
-   and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
-   back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
-
-
-0.6a8
- * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
-   with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
-
- * Made ``develop`` command accept all the same options as ``easy_install``,
-   and use the ``easy_install`` command's configuration settings as defaults.
-
- * Made ``egg_info --tag-svn-revision`` fall back to extracting the revision
-   number from ``PKG-INFO`` in case it is being run on a source distribution of
-   a snapshot taken from a Subversion-based project.
-
- * Automatically detect ``.dll``, ``.so`` and ``.dylib`` files that are being
-   installed as data, adding them to ``native_libs.txt`` automatically.
-
- * Fixed some problems with fresh checkouts of projects that don't include
-   ``.egg-info/PKG-INFO`` under revision control and put the project's source
-   code directly in the project directory.  If such a package had any
-   requirements that get processed before the ``egg_info`` command can be run,
-   the setup scripts would fail with a "Missing 'Version:' header and/or
-   PKG-INFO file" error, because the egg runtime interpreted the unbuilt
-   metadata in a directory on ``sys.path`` (i.e. the current directory) as
-   being a corrupted egg.  Setuptools now monkeypatches the distribution
-   metadata cache to pretend that the egg has valid version information, until
-   it has a chance to make it actually be so (via the ``egg_info`` command).
-
-0.6a5
- * Fixed missing gui/cli .exe files in distribution.  Fixed bugs in tests.
-
-0.6a3
- * Added ``gui_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing GUI scripts
-   on Windows and other platforms.  (The special handling is only for Windows;
-   other platforms are treated the same as for ``console_scripts``.)
-
-0.6a2
- * Added ``console_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing scripts
-   without the need to create separate script files.  On Windows, console
-   scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name.  On other
-   platforms, the scripts are written without a file extension.
-
-0.6a1
- * Added support for building "old-style" RPMs that don't install an egg for
-   the target package, using a ``--no-egg`` option.
-
- * The ``build_ext`` command now works better when using the ``--inplace``
-   option and multiple Python versions.  It now makes sure that all extensions
-   match the current Python version, even if newer copies were built for a
-   different Python version.
-
- * The ``upload`` command no longer attaches an extra ``.zip`` when uploading
-   eggs, as PyPI now supports egg uploads without trickery.
-
- * The ``ez_setup`` script/module now displays a warning before downloading
-   the setuptools egg, and attempts to check the downloaded egg against an
-   internal MD5 checksum table.
-
- * Fixed the ``--tag-svn-revision`` option of ``egg_info`` not finding the
-   latest revision number; it was using the revision number of the directory
-   containing ``setup.py``, not the highest revision number in the project.
-
- * Added ``eager_resources`` setup argument
-
- * The ``sdist`` command now recognizes Subversion "deleted file" entries and
-   does not include them in source distributions.
-
- * ``setuptools`` now embeds itself more thoroughly into the distutils, so that
-   other distutils extensions (e.g. py2exe, py2app) will subclass setuptools'
-   versions of things, rather than the native distutils ones.
-
- * Added ``entry_points`` and ``setup_requires`` arguments to ``setup()``;
-   ``setup_requires`` allows you to automatically find and download packages
-   that are needed in order to *build* your project (as opposed to running it).
-
- * ``setuptools`` now finds its commands, ``setup()`` argument validators, and
-   metadata writers using entry points, so that they can be extended by
-   third-party packages.  See `Creating distutils Extensions`_ above for more
-   details.
-
- * The vestigial ``depends`` command has been removed.  It was never finished
-   or documented, and never would have worked without EasyInstall - which it
-   pre-dated and was never compatible with.
-
-0.5a12
- * The zip-safety scanner now checks for modules that might be used with
-   ``python -m``, and marks them as unsafe for zipping, since Python 2.4 can't
-   handle ``-m`` on zipped modules.
-
-0.5a11
- * Fix breakage of the "develop" command that was caused by the addition of
-   ``--always-unzip`` to the ``easy_install`` command.
-
-0.5a9
- * Include ``svn:externals`` directories in source distributions as well as
-   normal subversion-controlled files and directories.
-
- * Added ``exclude=patternlist`` option to ``setuptools.find_packages()``
-
- * Changed --tag-svn-revision to include an "r" in front of the revision number
-   for better readability.
-
- * Added ability to build eggs without including source files (except for any
-   scripts, of course), using the ``--exclude-source-files`` option to
-   ``bdist_egg``.
-
- * ``setup.py install`` now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package
-   or module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package being installed,
-   thereby preventing the newer version from being imported.  If this occurs,
-   a warning message is output to ``sys.stderr``, but installation proceeds
-   anyway.  The warning message informs the user what files or directories
-   need deleting, and advises them they can also use EasyInstall (with the
-   ``--delete-conflicting`` option) to do it automatically.
-
- * The ``egg_info`` command now adds a ``top_level.txt`` file to the metadata
-   directory that lists all top-level modules and packages in the distribution.
-   This is used by the ``easy_install`` command to find possibly-conflicting
-   "unmanaged" packages when installing the distribution.
-
- * Added ``zip_safe`` and ``namespace_packages`` arguments to ``setup()``.
-   Added package analysis to determine zip-safety if the ``zip_safe`` flag
-   is not given, and advise the author regarding what code might need changing.
-
- * Fixed the swapped ``-d`` and ``-b`` options of ``bdist_egg``.
-
-0.5a8
- * The "egg_info" command now always sets the distribution metadata to "safe"
-   forms of the distribution name and version, so that distribution files will
-   be generated with parseable names (i.e., ones that don't include '-' in the
-   name or version).  Also, this means that if you use the various ``--tag``
-   options of "egg_info", any distributions generated will use the tags in the
-   version, not just egg distributions.
-
- * Added support for defining command aliases in distutils configuration files,
-   under the "[aliases]" section.  To prevent recursion and to allow aliases to
-   call the command of the same name, a given alias can be expanded only once
-   per command-line invocation.  You can define new aliases with the "alias"
-   command, either for the local, global, or per-user configuration.
-
- * Added "rotate" command to delete old distribution files, given a set of
-   patterns to match and the number of files to keep.  (Keeps the most
-   recently-modified distribution files matching each pattern.)
-
- * Added "saveopts" command that saves all command-line options for the current
-   invocation to the local, global, or per-user configuration file.  Useful for
-   setting defaults without having to hand-edit a configuration file.
-
- * Added a "setopt" command that sets a single option in a specified distutils
-   configuration file.
-
-0.5a7
- * Added "upload" support for egg and source distributions, including a bug
-   fix for "upload" and a temporary workaround for lack of .egg support in
-   PyPI.
-
-0.5a6
- * Beefed up the "sdist" command so that if you don't have a MANIFEST.in, it
-   will include all files under revision control (CVS or Subversion) in the
-   current directory, and it will regenerate the list every time you create a
-   source distribution, not just when you tell it to.  This should make the
-   default "do what you mean" more often than the distutils' default behavior
-   did, while still retaining the old behavior in the presence of MANIFEST.in.
-
- * Fixed the "develop" command always updating .pth files, even if you
-   specified ``-n`` or ``--dry-run``.
-
- * Slightly changed the format of the generated version when you use
-   ``--tag-build`` on the "egg_info" command, so that you can make tagged
-   revisions compare *lower* than the version specified in setup.py (e.g. by
-   using ``--tag-build=dev``).
-
-0.5a5
- * Added ``develop`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages.  This command
-   installs an ``.egg-link`` pointing to the package's source directory, and
-   script wrappers that ``execfile()`` the source versions of the package's
-   scripts.  This lets you put your development checkout(s) on sys.path without
-   having to actually install them.  (To uninstall the link, use
-   use ``setup.py develop --uninstall``.)
-
- * Added ``egg_info`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages.  This command
-   just creates or updates the "projectname.egg-info" directory, without
-   building an egg.  (It's used by the ``bdist_egg``, ``test``, and ``develop``
-   commands.)
-
- * Enhanced the ``test`` command so that it doesn't install the package, but
-   instead builds any C extensions in-place, updates the ``.egg-info``
-   metadata, adds the source directory to ``sys.path``, and runs the tests
-   directly on the source.  This avoids an "unmanaged" installation of the
-   package to ``site-packages`` or elsewhere.
-
- * Made ``easy_install`` a standard ``setuptools`` command, moving it from
-   the ``easy_install`` module to ``setuptools.command.easy_install``.  Note
-   that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports
-   accordingly.  ``easy_install.py`` is still installed as a script, but not as
-   a module.
-
-0.5a4
- * Setup scripts using setuptools can now list their dependencies directly in
-   the setup.py file, without having to manually create a ``depends.txt`` file.
-   The ``install_requires`` and ``extras_require`` arguments to ``setup()``
-   are used to create a dependencies file automatically.  If you are manually
-   creating ``depends.txt`` right now, please switch to using these setup
-   arguments as soon as practical, because ``depends.txt`` support will be
-   removed in the 0.6 release cycle.  For documentation on the new arguments,
-   see the ``setuptools.dist.Distribution`` class.
-
- * Setup scripts using setuptools now always install using ``easy_install``
-   internally, for ease of uninstallation and upgrading.
-
-0.5a1
- * Added support for "self-installation" bootstrapping.  Packages can now
-   include ``ez_setup.py`` in their source distribution, and add the following
-   to their ``setup.py``, in order to automatically bootstrap installation of
-   setuptools as part of their setup process::
-
-    from ez_setup import use_setuptools
-    use_setuptools()
-
-    from setuptools import setup
-    # etc...
-
-0.4a2
- * Added ``ez_setup.py`` installer/bootstrap script to make initial setuptools
-   installation easier, and to allow distributions using setuptools to avoid
-   having to include setuptools in their source distribution.
-
- * All downloads are now managed by the ``PackageIndex`` class (which is now
-   subclassable and replaceable), so that embedders can more easily override
-   download logic, give download progress reports, etc.  The class has also
-   been moved to the new ``setuptools.package_index`` module.
-
- * The ``Installer`` class no longer handles downloading, manages a temporary
-   directory, or tracks the ``zip_ok`` option.  Downloading is now handled
-   by ``PackageIndex``, and ``Installer`` has become an ``easy_install``
-   command class based on ``setuptools.Command``.
-
- * There is a new ``setuptools.sandbox.run_setup()`` API to invoke a setup
-   script in a directory sandbox, and a new ``setuptools.archive_util`` module
-   with an ``unpack_archive()`` API.  These were split out of EasyInstall to
-   allow reuse by other tools and applications.
-
- * ``setuptools.Command`` now supports reinitializing commands using keyword
-   arguments to set/reset options.  Also, ``Command`` subclasses can now set
-   their ``command_consumes_arguments`` attribute to ``True`` in order to
-   receive an ``args`` option containing the rest of the command line.
-
-0.3a2
- * Added new options to ``bdist_egg`` to allow tagging the egg's version number
-   with a subversion revision number, the current date, or an explicit tag
-   value.  Run ``setup.py bdist_egg --help`` to get more information.
-
- * Misc. bug fixes
-
-0.3a1
- * Initial release.
-
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