"AutoReq: 0" to disable automatic dependency searching.

os.path.abspath(self.rpm_base) instead of os.getcwd() + '/' + self.rpm_base

calculates.  Spotted by Cort Danger Stratton.

scripts without modifying either the distutils installation or the
setup.py scripts of packages with which the new commands will be used.

Specifically, an option is added to distutils that allows additional
packages to be searched for command implementations in addition to
distutils.command.  The additional packages can be specified on the
command line or via the installation or personal configuration files
already loaded by distutils.

For discussion, see the thread starting with:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2004-August/004112.html

This closes SF patch #102241.

Python was built with VC 7.1.

- fix broken assert statement; should just raise

can contain more than just .py files.  Make sure we only report
bytecode files for the .py files.

must be literally contained here, because it is still possible to
install this distutils in older Python versions.

with umlauts in the author argument and others.

Fixes sf # 993943.

results when byte-code compilation is requested (in particular, make
sure that package data doesn't get a bogus byte-code listing
generated)

change as well.
Recompiled binaries after this change.

change as well.  Add a comment explaining this.

If someone has other ideas for the numbering scheme, please change to
something else (1.1.0 ?).

Patch from Mark Hammond:

bdist_wininst attempts to use the correct MSVC runtime for the current
version of Python. This doesn't work correctly when --target-version
is set. In that case, bdist_wininst still uses the *current*
sys.version (ie, 2.4) rather than the version specified as
--target-version. Thus, the msvc7 runtime based executable stub is
*always* used.

This patch "hard-codes" knowledge of earlier Python versions,
providing the correct result when Python 2.4 is used to build Python
2.3 and earlier distributions.

Remove the short variant (-v) of the --target-version command line
options, it conflicts with the --verbose/-v standard distutils switch.

Patch from Mark Hammond.
Recompiled binary.

Already packported to the 2.3 branch.

immediately (since None is not a sequence you can iterate over).

We need to write more; hopefully the barrier is a little lower now.

This is basically the support for package data from Phillip Eby's
setuptools package.  I've changed it only to fit it into the core
implementation rather than to live in subclasses, and added
documentation.

Ignore it, rather than breaking.

Will backport.

(and r1.1000 for Misc/NEWS!)