longer fails if zlib is not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED
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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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  Use nested method directives, rewrap long lines, fix whitespace.
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  Fix typo in superclass method name
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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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  r87277 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 21:26:30 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix wrong name in docstring and doc (#10693).  Original patch by Eli Bendersky.
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  r86596 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-20 21:04:17 +0200 (Sat, 20 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
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  r86601 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-20 20:35:27 +0100 (sam., 20 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix two NameErrors in distutils (#10407)
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  Add entry for r86601
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  r86438 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-12 23:25:23 +0100 (ven., 12 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  And now for something completely different: Finish fixing #10252 again.
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  r86274 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 16:57:52 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Correct the fix for #10252: Popen objects have no close method.
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  Fix #10252 again (hopefully definitely).  Patch by Brian Curtin.
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  r86244 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 05:48:05 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 3 lines

  Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils.  Patch by Arfrever on #9281.
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  r86223 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:51:56 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Always close files in distutils code and tests (#10252).
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  Add missing entry for r86223.
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  Of course, I forgot one file in r86223.
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  Also close file descriptors from os.popen and subprocess.Popen
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  r82805 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:42:10 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.
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  r82806 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 12:22:44 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #9223: link to Command class reference, and move Command interface docs nearer to class docs.
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  r83523 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:06:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9209 and #7781: fix two crashes in pstats interactive browser.
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  #9428: fix running scripts from profile/cProfile with their own name and the right namespace.  Same fix as for trace.py in #1690103.
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  Get rid of spurious "threading" entries in trace output.
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  r83526 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:40:22 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Fix softspace relic.
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  #3821: beginnings of a trace.py unittest.
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  r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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  #6928: fix class docs w.r.t. new metaclasses.
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  r83542 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:56:54 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Move test_SimpleHTTPServer into test_httpservers.
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  r83546 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:16:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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  r83547 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:19:26 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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  r83548 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:23:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8172: how does one use a property?
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  r83550 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:32:43 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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  r83551 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:35:06 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove XXX comment that was displayed.
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  #9438: clarify that constant names also cannot be assigned as attributes.
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  r83553 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:39:17 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove redundant information.
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  #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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  #8861: remove unused variable.
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  #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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  #9087: update json docstrings -- unicode and long do not exist anymore.
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  r85197 | tarek.ziade | 2010-10-03 16:18:09 +0200 (Sun, 03 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  Fixed #8980: distutils.command.check was failing w/ docutils installed
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  r84889 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-19 08:39:54 +0530 (Sun, 19 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Update the test_distutils mode test to test with umask value properly.
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  r84871 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-18 08:25:03 +0530 (Sat, 18 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Skip the distutils mode test on Windows OS.
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  r84861 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-17 22:05:37 +0530 (Fri, 17 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix Issue2236: Distutils' mkpath implementation ignoring the "mode" parameter
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  r84765 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-09-13 16:18:30 +0900 | 2 lines

  get_build_version() is needed even where sys.platform != "win32".
  Try to fix buildbot error in other way.
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  r84753 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-09-13 07:55:40 +0900 | 1 line

  Issue #9313: Skips test_remove_visual_c_ref on old MSVC.
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  Issue #9313: Use unittest.skipUnless to skip old MSVC.
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  r84711 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-11 17:28:56 +0200 (sam., 11 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in option name
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  r84680 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-10 21:44:44 +0200 (ven., 10 sept. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
  be built as a shared library.  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
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  r84614 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 02:00:45 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 5 lines

  Follow-up to #9199: Fix str.join use, add newlines.

  Thanks to Konrad Delong for writing a test for upload_docs
  --show-response in distutils2, letting me catch my mistake.
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  r84611 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 01:08:57 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix incorrect use of Command.announce (#9199)
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  r84608 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 00:11:52 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix eon-old bug in build_clib options (#1718574)
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  r83993 | eric.araujo | 2010-08-14 04:30:34 +0200 (sam., 14 août 2010) | 2 lines

  Use a marker in generated MANIFEST files, don't touch files without it. Fixes #8688.
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  r83371 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:54:24 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #8292: Fix three instances of truth tests on return values of filter() (which is always true in Python 3).
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  #8230: make Lib/test/sortperf.py run on Python 3.
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  #6026: skip test_get_file_list when zlib is not available.
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    r82272 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-06-27 14:36:16 +0200 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 8 lines

    Two small fixes for the support for SDKs on MacOSX:

    1) The code that checks if an path should be located in the SDK
       explicitly excludes /usr/local. This fixes issue9046

    2) The SDK variant for filtering "db_dirs_to_check" in setup.py
       was not doing anything because of a missing assignment.
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    r82130 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-21 10:27:46 -0500 (Mon, 21 Jun 2010) | 1 line

    fix finding visual studio 2008 on 64 bit #8854
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    r81662 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-06-03 11:47:21 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 9 lines

    Fix for issue #7724: ensure that distutils and python's own setup.py
    honor the MacOSX SDK when one is specified.

    This is needed to be able to build using the 10.4u SDK while running
    on OSX 10.6.

    This is a fixed version of the patch in r80963, I've tested this patch
    on OSX and Linux.
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  r81359 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-19 19:00:07 +0200 (mer., 19 mai 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
  compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if stdout
  is not a TTY).
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  r81360 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-19 19:11:19 +0200 (mer., 19 mai 2010) | 5 lines

  regrtest.py: call replace_stdout() before the first call to print()

  print("==  ", os.getcwd()) fails if the current working directory is not ASCII
  whereas sys.stdout encoding is ASCII.
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  Oops, add the new test_log.py for distutils test suite (missing part of r81359)
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    upgraded distutils docs w.r.t. the manifest regeneration
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    Fixed #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
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