POSIX platforms, ie. get a little more detail than 'sys.platform' gives.

all that work when someone asks for a "configuration variable" from the
Makefile.  Details:
  - added 'get_config_vars()': responsible for calling one of the
    '_init_*()' functions to figure things out for this platform,
    and to provide an interface to the resulting dictionary
  - added 'get_config_var()' as a simple interface to the dictionary
    loaded by 'get_config_vars()'
  - changed the '_init_*()' functions so they load the global dictionary
    '_config_vars', rather than spewing their findings all over
    the module namespace
  - don't delete the '_init_*()' functions when done importing
  - adjusted 'customize_compiler()' to the new regime

comments are stripped and lines are joined according to the backslash
convention.

compilation).

<prefix>:Lib:site-packages.

directory too.  Also generally cleaned up the code.

generated filenames.

  interpreter the .spec file refers to.
Cosmetic tweaks.

used to create the distribution and the creation date.

Takes care of the extra_path argument to the setup function,
installs the modules into <prefix>/extra_path and creates
a -pth file (like install_lib does).

for python installations, not only under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py:
- the windows installer is again able to compile after installing
  the files. Note: The default has changed, the packager has to
  give --no-target-compile/--no-target-optimize to NOT compile
  on the target system. (Another note: install_lib's --compile
  --optimize options have the same semantics to switch off
  the compilation. Shouldn't the names change?)
- All references to specific python versions are gone.
- A small bug:
    raise DistutilsPlatformError ("...")
  instead of
    raise DistutilsPlatformError, ("...")
- When bdist_wininst creates an installer for one specific python
  version, this is reflected in the name:
    Distutils-0.9.2.win32-py15.exe instead of
    Distutils-0.9.2.win32.exe
- bdist_wininst, when run as script, reads the wininst.exe file
  and rewrites itself. Previously this was done by hand.

misc/install.c
- All the changes needed for compilation
- Deleted a lot of debug/dead code

  - 'mkpath()' the distribution dir in case of empty manifest
  - warn if empty manifest
  - detect, warn about, and skip non-regular files in manifest

  bug to boot: now works even if both MANIFEST and MANIFEST.in don't exist.
Don't hardcode setup.py, use 'self.distribution.script_name'.

* ensure the "dist" directory exists
* raise exception if using for modules containing compiled extensions
  on a non-win32 platform.
* don't create an .ini file anymore (it was just for debugging)

* reverse library names from bcpp_library to library_bcpp
* move some code to the right places, to put the def-files
  in the right directories again

(With a worry-wart comment added by me about where we *should* add the
Python library to the link.)

fairly tight control, and the '_setup_stop_after' and '_setup_distribution'
globals to provide the tight control.

This isn't entirely reliable yet: it dies horribly with a NameError on the
example PIL setup script in examples/pil_setup.py (at least with Python
1.5.2; untested with current Python).  There's some strangeness going
on with execfile(), but I don't understand it and don't have time
to track it down right now.

according to the MS docs it enables exception-handling, and (according
to Alex Martelli <aleaxit@yahoo.com>) is needed to compile without
getting warnings from standard C++ library headers.  Apparently
it doesn't cause any problems with C code, so I haven't bothered
conditionalizing the use of /GX.

Changed 'core.setup()' so it sets them to reasonable defaults.
Tweaked how the "usage" string is generated: 'core' now provides
  'gen_usage()', which is used instead of 'USAGE'.
Modified "build_py" and "sdist" commands to refer to
  'self.distribution.script_name' rather than 'sys.argv[0]'.

Fix bad operator precedence: should be "(metadata or '') + '\n'".

The known bug (bogus error message when an empty file is
extracted) is fixed.

Other changes:

- The target-compile and target-optimize flags of bdist_wininst
  are gone. It is no longer possible to compile the python
  files during installation.
- The zlib module is no longer required or used by bdist_wininst.

- I moved the decompression/extraction code into a separate
  file (extract.c).

- The installer stub is now compressed by UPX (see
  http://upx.tsx.org/). This reduces the size of the exe
  (and thus the overhead of the final installer program)
  from 40 kB to 16 kB.

- The installer displays a more uptodate user wizard-like
  user interface, also containing a graphic: Just's Python Powered logo.
  (I could not convince myself to use one of the BeOpen logos).
- The installation progress bar now moves correctly.

don't assign None to any attributes of the Extension object.

in archive_util.py.

or ZIP file.

'--source-only' options.

hack to find the two created RPM files (source and binary) and
move them to the "dist dir" (default "dist").

represents packages as strings, not tuples.  This allowed a simplification
in 'get_package_dir()', too -- can now assume that 'package' is a string.

and is much better documented to boot.

argument list.

  * use self.debug_print() for debug messages
  * uses now copy.copy() to copy lists
  * added 'shared_lib_extension=".dll"', ... , this is necessary if you
    want use the compiler class outside of the standard distutils build
    process.
  * changed result type of check_config_h() from int to string