Original patch by Sarah K.

AI_NUMERICSERV isn't defined on OSX 10.4.

encoding now always contains an encoding name.

Fix bug in existing human test and add instructions; fix two bugs in tested
code; remove redundancies, add spaces, and change two internal method names.
Add mock_tk with mocks for tkinter.Variable subclasses and tkinter.messagebox.
Use mocks in test_config_name to unittest methods that are otherwise gui-free.

os.path.join(*self.dirs) produces an invalid path on windows.
ftp paths are always forward-slash seperated like this. /pub/dir.

hostname is resolvable by socket.gethostname for local machine. This all fixes
certain freebsd builtbot failures.

towards target. This fixes a bug where target is accessible, but parent
directories are restricted.

Refactor test to accomodate that and exercise the needed functionality.

Preliminary patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan.

OS X 10.8 systems because the Apple-deprecated QuickDraw headers have
been removed from Xcode 4.  Skip building it in this case.

This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative manner.

is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden.  This restores
Distutils behavior introduced in 2.7.3 and inadvertently dropped in 2.7.4.

Without this patch socket.getaddrinfo crashed when called
with some unusual argument combinations.

Patch by Guilherme Simões.

Add links to encoders and decoders for binary-to-binary codecs.

This has come up often enough now on the tracker that it deserves a FAQ entry.

characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
Ortiz Vasquez.