Merged revisions 65780,65782,65785,65809,65812,65834,65846,65859,65861 via svnmerge from

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  r65780 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-08-17 15:15:07 -0500 (Sun, 17 Aug 2008) | 3 lines

  #3580: fix a failure in test_os
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  r65782 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-17 15:33:45 -0500 (Sun, 17 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  set svn:executable on a script
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  r65785 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-08-17 16:05:18 -0500 (Sun, 17 Aug 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix a refleak in bytearray.split and bytearray.rsplit, detected by
     regrtest.py -R:: test_bytes
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  r65809 | nick.coghlan | 2008-08-18 07:42:46 -0500 (Mon, 18 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  Belated NEWS entry for r65642
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  r65812 | nick.coghlan | 2008-08-18 08:32:19 -0500 (Mon, 18 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo
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  r65834 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-08-18 14:23:47 -0500 (Mon, 18 Aug 2008) | 4 lines

  #2234 distutils failed with mingw binutils 2.18.50.20080109.
  Be less strict when parsing these version numbers,
  they don't necessarily follow the python numbering scheme.
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  r65846 | georg.brandl | 2008-08-18 18:09:49 -0500 (Mon, 18 Aug 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix grammar.
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  r65859 | thomas.heller | 2008-08-19 12:47:13 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix strange character in the docstring.
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  r65861 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-19 12:59:23 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  get unparse to at least unparse its self
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cygwinccompiler.py

@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ def get_versions():
     """ Try to find out the versions of gcc, ld and dllwrap.
         If not possible it returns None for it.
     """
-    from distutils.version import StrictVersion
+    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
     from distutils.spawn import find_executable
     import re
 
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ def get_versions():
         out.close()
         result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)', out_string, re.ASCII)
         if result:
-            gcc_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
+            gcc_version = LooseVersion(result.group(1))
         else:
             gcc_version = None
     else:
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ def get_versions():
         out.close()
         result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)', out_string, re.ASCII)
         if result:
-            ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
+            ld_version = LooseVersion(result.group(1))
         else:
             ld_version = None
     else:
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ def get_versions():
         out.close()
         result = re.search(' (\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)', out_string, re.ASCII)
         if result:
-            dllwrap_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
+            dllwrap_version = LooseVersion(result.group(1))
         else:
             dllwrap_version = None
     else: