#1487105.

in turn matches Microsoft's documentation).
Drop unused parameter in CAB.append.

since this value is used to name the build directory.

an installed VC6. Otherwise only the first such tree gets checked and this
warning doesn't get displayed.

configure time. The current check is too strict and doesn't allow building
extensions that can only run on newer versions of the OS than the version
python was build for, that is python build for 10.3 or later and an extension
for 10.4. This patch relaxes this check.

This turned out to be a reimplementation of patch 1193190.

    /path/to/uninstalled/python setup.py build_ext

now failed with pyconfig.h not found.  Prior to r45232
the above command did not look for pyconfig.h, but the
bug is really in the look-up code: expecting to find it
in os.curdir is a rather fragile idea.

--enable-shared. Fixes #832799.

msg strings with '%', but without format args.

for setup.py "upload" command.

(Ideally, all packages in Python 2.5 will use the relative import
syntax for all their relative import needs.)

Will backport to 2.4.

Backported to 2.4.

binary file, use 'rb'!

defined in the makefile. Get CFLAGS from the Makefile, instead of
getting OPT, BASE_CFLAGS and EXTRA_CFLAGS individually.

to be used for flags that change binary compatibility.

Distutils was tweaked to also use the variable if used during compilation of
the interpreter.

properly encoded and include the encoding in the Content-Type header.

work (SyntaxErrors at compile time).

I slammed in what looked like the obvious fixes, but someone who
understands this file should check my work.

so that bdist_wininst can specify 'any'.