the OSX 10.4u SDK on MacOSX 10.6 by honoring the specified
SDK when looking for files.

to "sys.platform == 'mac'" and that is
dead code because it refers to a platform
that is no longer supported (and hasn't been
supported for several releases).

Fixes issue #7908 for the trunk.

removed the local copy of xxmodule, and skip only test_build_ext when xxmodule is not found, not the whole unittest

But when the "dl" module is available, it gives a py3k deprecation warning.

reverting partially distutils to its 2.6.x state so 2.7a4 looks more like the 2.7b1 in this. the whole revert will occur after a4 is tagged

with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
improve the patch.

Fixed #7748: now upload and register commands don't need to force the encoding anymore : DistributionMetada returns utf8 strings

for the machine ("i386" or "ppc"), even if the executable is
64-bit.

This patchs ensures that the distutils platform architecture
represents the architecture for the executable when running a
64-bit only executable on OSX.