I need this to fix the failing test_install.

I need to copy this file in another test too, so I moved the support
code to distutils.tests.support and improved it:

- don’t skip when run from the Lib/distutils/tests directory
- use proper skip machinery instead of custom print/return/test suite
  fiddling.

The changed behavior of sdist in 3.1 broke packaging for projects that
wanted to use a manually-maintained MANIFEST file (instead of having a
MANIFEST.in template and letting distutils generate the MANIFEST).

The fixes that were committed for #8688 (76643c286b9f by Tarek and
d54da9248ed9 by me) did not fix all issues exposed in the bug report,
and also added one problem: the MANIFEST file format gained comments,
but the read_manifest method was not updated to handle (i.e. ignore)
them.  This changeset should fix everything; the tests have been
expanded and I successfully tested the 2.7 version with Mercurial, which
suffered from this regression.

I have grouped the versionchanged directives for these bugs in one place
and added micro version numbers to help users know the quirks of the
exact version they’re using.

Initial report, thorough diagnosis and patch by John Dennis, further
work on the patch by Stephen Thorne, and a few edits and additions by
me.

Fix closes Issue11439 Remove the SVN keywords from the code as it is no longer applicable in hg. Patch Contributed by Neil Muller.

encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.

set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET env variable for the interpreter process
on OS X.  This could cause failures in non-distutils subprocesses and was
unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
environment after distutils set it.  Instead, have distutils set the
the deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess.

Continue to use the previous algorithm for deriving the deployment target
value:
    if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is not set in the interpreter's env:
        use the interpreter build configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
    elif the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET env value >= configure value:
        use the env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
    else: # env value less than interpreter build configure value
        raise exception
This allows building extensions that can only run on newer versions of
the OS than the version python was built for, for example with a python
built for 10.3 or later and an extension that needs to be built for 10.5.

test_build_ext.

test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
run outside of a build directory.

The tests now pass all combinations of -O/-OO and -B.  See also #7071
and #6292 for previous variations on the same theme.

test_versionpredicate needs a skip when sys.flags.optimize is true, but
I don’t know how to make that work with a DocTestSuite.

Without this patch python will fail to start properly when the environment
variable MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set on MacOSX and has a value that is
not compatible with the value during Python's build. This is caused by code
in sysconfig that was only meant to be used in disutils.

non-ASCII scripts. Open and write the script in binary mode, but ensure that
the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the encoding of the script.

non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
encoding of the script.

longer fails if zlib is not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED
compression is used to create the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

The missing NEWS entries correspond to changes that were made before 3.1.3, but
I think it’s not usual to edit entries of released versions, so I put them at
the top.

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  r86236 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 03:44:43 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Make sure each test can be run standalone (./python Lib/distutils/tests/x.py)
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  r86240 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 05:11:59 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Prevent ResourceWarnings in test_gettext
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  r86332 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-08 19:15:17 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 4 lines

  Add missing NEWS entry for a fix committed by Senthil.

  All recent modifications to distutils should now be covered in NEWS.
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  r86340 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-08 22:48:23 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  This was actually fixed for the previous alpha.
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  r87271 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 20:09:58 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Improve trace documentation (#9264).  Patch by Eli Bendersky.
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  r87273 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 20:30:15 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Use nested method directives, rewrap long lines, fix whitespace.
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  r87447 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-23 20:13:05 +0100 (jeu., 23 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in superclass method name
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r87280 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 22:07:22 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix build_ext with VS 8.0.  Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto (#9558).
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