the source.  Also, define 'srcdir' on non-posix platforms.

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  r69285 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-05 10:06:23 +0100 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fix comment for #1835
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  r68840 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-20 20:15:43 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Add some items
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  r68881 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-23 21:28:18 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r68943 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-25 16:09:10 -0600 (Sun, 25 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #5052: removed backward compatibility information (out of date)
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  r68945 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-25 16:11:04 -0600 (Sun, 25 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  added missing module docstring
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  r69106 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-30 00:49:17 +0100 (Fri, 30 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fixed test_make_distribution so it runs on any platform, as long as tar an gzip are available
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  r69094 | mark.hammond | 2009-01-29 23:13:31 +1100 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix issue5075: bdist_wininst should not depend on the vc runtime?
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the standard library and tests.

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  r68951 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-26 00:34:00 +0100 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #1885: --formats=tar,gztar was not working properly in the sdist command
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  r68929 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-25 19:19:25 +0100 (Sun, 25 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #4863: removed distutils.mwerkscompiler
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  r68167 | vinay.sajip | 2009-01-02 12:53:04 -0600 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Minor documentation changes relating to NullHandler, the module used for handlers and references to ConfigParser.
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  r68276 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-03 18:04:49 -0600 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fixed #1702551: distutils sdist was not pruning VCS directories under win32
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  r68292 | skip.montanaro | 2009-01-04 04:36:58 -0600 (Sun, 04 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  If user configures --without-gcc give preference to $CC instead of blindly
  assuming the compiler will be "cc".
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  r68293 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-04 04:37:52 -0600 (Sun, 04 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  using clearer syntax
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  r68344 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-01-05 13:43:35 -0600 (Mon, 05 Jan 2009) | 7 lines

  Fix #4846 (Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE causes linker error) by moving the declaration
  into the extern "C" section.

  Add a few more comments and apply some minor edits to make the file contents
  fit the original structure again.
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  r68415 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-09 00:56:31 +0100 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fixed #4394 make the storage of the password optional in .pypirc
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  r68373 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-01-07 18:42:28 +0900 | 2 lines

  Issue #4864: test_msvc9compiler failed on VC6/7.
  Reviewed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
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  r68081 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-31 00:03:41 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed #4702: Throwing DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError under win32 if MSVC is not found
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  r67982 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 09:37:31 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix WORD_BIGEDIAN declaration in Universal builds; fixes #4060 and #4728
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  r67988 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 13:40:56 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Issue4064: architecture string for universal builds on OSX
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  r67990 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 13:50:40 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Update the fix for issue4064 to deal correctly with all three variants of
  universal builds that are presented by the configure script.
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  r68033 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-29 23:23:53 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fixed #4646 : distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
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  r67889 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:04:32 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  sphinx.web is long gone
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  r67890 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:12:26 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  update readme
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  r67891 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:14:47 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  there are way too many places which need to have the current version added
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  r67892 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:29:32 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 67809 via svnmerge from
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    r67809 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-15 21:54:45 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    fix logic error
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  r67895 | neal.norwitz | 2008-12-21 08:28:32 -0600 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Tarek for work on distutils.
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  r67898 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-21 15:00:53 -0600 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  compute DISTVERSION with patchlevel.py
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  r67904 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:44:58 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  less attitude
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  r67905 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:51:15 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix #4720: the format to PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can now start with '|'
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  r67906 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:52:53 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add NEWS note
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  r67907 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 16:12:19 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  silence compiler warning
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  r67912 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-23 06:37:21 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix missing "svn" command.
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  r67918 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-23 09:44:25 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Markup fix.
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  r67920 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-23 14:09:28 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  use a global variable, so the compiler doesn't optimize the assignment out
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  r67921 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-23 14:12:33 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  make global static
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  r67923 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-24 09:10:27 -0600 (Wed, 24 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  #4736 BufferRWPair.closed shouldn't try to call another property as a function
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  r67924 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-24 10:10:05 -0600 (Wed, 24 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  pretend exceptions don't exist a while longer
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  r67926 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-24 13:10:05 -0600 (Wed, 24 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fixed #4400 : distutils .pypirc default generated file was broken.
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  r67927 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-26 17:26:30 -0600 (Fri, 26 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  python version is included in file name now
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  r67930 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-12-26 22:19:48 -0600 (Fri, 26 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #4740: Use HIGHEST_PROTOCOL in pickle test.
  (There is no behavior difference in 2.x because HIGHEST_PROTOCOL == 2)
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  r67943 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 04:02:59 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix bogus unicode tests in pickletester.
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  r67654 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-07 16:42:09 -0600 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4457: rewrite __import__() documentation.
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  r67676 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:03:03 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  specify how things are copied
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  r67677 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:05:11 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  revert unrelated change to installer script
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  r67681 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-12-09 15:03:10 -0600 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add simple unittests for Request
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  r67692 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-10 18:03:42 -0600 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #1030250: correctly pass the dry_run option to the mkpath() function.
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  r67725 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-12 22:02:20 -0600 (Fri, 12 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix incorrect example
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  r67761 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-14 11:26:04 -0600 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix missing bracket
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  r67784 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:33:58 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4446: document "platforms" argument for setup().
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  r67785 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:36:11 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4611: fix typo.
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  r67787 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:58:59 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4578: fix has_key() usage in compiler package.
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  r67788 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 03:07:39 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4568: remove limitation in varargs callback example.
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  r67802 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-15 16:29:14 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  #3632: the "pyo" macro from gdbinit can now run when the GIL is released.

  Patch by haypo.
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  r67848 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:28:56 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix typo
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  r67849 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:31:35 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  _call_method -> _callmethod and _get_value to _getvalue
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  r67850 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-12-19 03:06:07 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 9 lines

  Fix-up and clean-up docs for int.bit_length().

  * Replace dramatic footnote with in-line comment about possible round-off errors in logarithms of large numbers.
  * Add comments to the pure python code equivalent.
  * replace floor() with int() in the mathematical equivalent so the type is correct (should be an int, not a float).
  * add abs() to the mathematical equivalent so that it matches the previous line that it is supposed to be equivalent to.
  * make one combined example with a negative input.
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  r67862 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:48:02 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  copy sentence from docstring
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  r67863 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:51:26 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add headings
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  r67864 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:57:19 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  beef up docstring
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  r67880 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:49:24 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  remove redundant sentence
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  r67882 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:59:49 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add some recent releases to the list
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  r67414 | christian.heimes | 2008-11-28 12:02:32 +0100 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed issue ##3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an exception
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The code still mixed bytes and strings.

Reviewed by Martin von Loewis.

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  r66542 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-09-22 05:48:41 +0900 | 2 lines

  Issue #3925: Ignores shutil.rmtree error on cygwin too.
  Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson.
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Reviewed by Trent Nelson.

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  r66171 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-09-03 01:19:56 +0200 (mer., 03 sept. 2008) | 9 lines

  Issue 2975: when compiling multiple extension modules with visual studio 2008
  from the same python instance, some environment variables (LIB, INCLUDE)
  would grow without limit.

  Tested with these statements:
      distutils.ccompiler.new_compiler().initialize()
      print os.environ['LIB']
  But I don't know how to turn them into reliable unit tests.
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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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and str (unicode) patterns get full unicode matching by default. The re.ASCII
flag is also introduced to ask for ASCII matching instead.

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  r65667 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-08-14 14:50:43 +0900 | 1 line

  Fixed test_distutils error (test_build_ext) on VC6.
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Reported by Lisandro Dalcin.