Question for Jack Jansen: is this reasonable?

Candidate for 2.2 release branch (if Jack thinks it's OK).

crashes.

If no external zip-utility is found, the archive is created by the
zipfile module, which behaves different now than in 2.1: if the
zip-file is created in the root directory if the distribution, it will
contain an (empty) version of itself.

This triggered the above bug - so it's better to create the zip-file
far away in the TMP directory.

>
> When using 'distutils' (shipped with Python 2.1) I've found that my
> Python scripts installed with a first line of:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python2.1None
>
> This is caused by distutils trying to patch the first line of the python
> script to use the current interpreter.

searched for a dependency for runtime linking.
This closes SF bug #445902.

[ #409430 ] pydoc install broken

[ #477371 ] build_scripts can use wrong #! line

scripts now get "built" into a directory

build/scripts-$(PYTHON_VERSION)/

distutils for the library modules built as shared objects.  A better solution
appears possible, but with the threat that the distutils becomes more
magical ("complex").
This closes SF bug #458343.

   adjust it when a versioned interpreter is supplied (#!.../python2 ...)

invalid filenames on Windows when building without specifying a
version number in the setup script.

See also
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2001-November/002656.html

Bugfix candidate.

Tom Loredo.

in the gui.
Updated to include the new exe-file.

bdist_wininst doesn't use the NT SCHEME any more, instead
a custom SCHEME is used, which is exchanged at installation
time, depending on the python version used.

Avoid a bogus warning frpom install_lib about installing
into a directory not on sys.path.

   This will have to stay until we decide to drop 1.5.2 compatibility
   completely.

   Slightly modified version of patch from Jon Nelson (jnelson).

   INSTALLED_FILES output.  Modified version of a patch from
   Jon Nelson (jnelson)

Fixed.

the setup script is running from inside Vim.

'static' and 'shared'. This fixes extension building for dynamic
Pythons on MacOSX.

modules and extensions on Windows is now $PREFIX/Lib/site-packages.
Includes backwards compatibility code for pre-2.2 Pythons.  Contributed
by Paul Moore.

    I have no way of testing this.

    Add executable extension, needed to get the program name right on Win32

    Provide include_dirs argument to all calls to ._preprocess and ._compile
    Fix typo: pattern.search(pattern) should be pattern.search(line)

(This command seems to be essentially untested; should fix that...)

    libraries.  This is done by adding a .get_source_files() method,
    contributed by Rene Liebscher and slightly modified.
Remove an unused local variable spotted by PyChecker

Use construction-syntax for an exception to make the argument easier
to read.

   though 'licence' is still supported for backward-compatibility
   (Should I add a warning to get_licence(), or not bother?)

Also fixes an UnboundLocalError noticed by PyChecker