preferences object.

- Try not only "darwin-7.X.Y" but also "darwin-7.X" and "darwin-7",
  so far we've never had to create anew database for a minor release.
- Distinguish between the various different installs (user-installed
  MacPython, apple-installed MacPython, other).

if a function cannot be stored as global.
This is for compatibility with pickle.py .

float_richcompare.  Reported on c.l.py by Helmut Jarausch.

 * Fixed a bug in the compatibility interface set_location() method
   where it would not properly search to the next nearest key when
   used on BTree databases.  [SF bug id 788421]
 * Fixed a bug in the compatibility interface set_location() method
   where it could crash when looking up keys in a hash or recno
   format database due to an incorrect free().

by SIGCHLD or sth because no signal is masked before. This fixes
an optimized installation problem on FreeBSD libpthread.

Reported by Bob Ippolito.

for MacPython 2.3 (and, hopefully, python 2.3 for windows too).

Invoke the standard error handlers for non-200 responses.

Always supply a "Connection: close" header to prevent the server from
leaving the connection open.  Downstream users of the socket may
attempt recv()/read() with no arguments, which would block if the
connection were kept open.

msvccompiler.get_build_version().

Distributions without a pre-install-script didn't work any longer, we
must at least provide the terminating NUL character.

included in Python distributions for systems other than Windows.
Windows installers can be build on non-Windows systems as long as they
only include pure python module distributions.

Studio .NET 2003).

The output files are named wininst-7.1.exe and wininst-7.1_d.exe.

by bdist_wininst *must* use the same runtime libary as the Python
version.

Actually this means the Python version where the installer is run, not
the one which is used to build it.  Must think about that - for now I
assume MSVC6 is used up to Python 2.3, and MSVC7.1 is used starting at
Python 2.4.

So the filename for wininst.exe is now wininst-6.exe for the Release
version and wininst-6_d.exe for the Debug version, when built with
MSVC6.

Patch #892660 from Mark Hammond, for distutils bdist_wininst command.

install.c: support for a 'pre-install-script', run before anything has
been installed. Provides a 'message_box' module function for use by
either the pre-install or post-install scripts.

bdist_wininst.py: support for pre-install script. Typo (build->built),
fixes so that --target-version can still work, even when the
distribution has extension modules - in this case, we insist on
--skip-build, as we still can't actually build other versions.

install.c: support for a 'pre-install-script', run before anything has
been installed. Provides a 'message_box' module function for use by
either the pre-install or post-install scripts.

bdist_wininst.py: support for pre-install script. Typo (build->built),
fixes so that --target-version can still work, even when the
distribution has extension modules - in this case, we insist on
--skip-build, as we still can't actually build other versions.

Exception traceback text is now cached.
Closing a handler now removes it from the internal _handlers list.
Handlers now chain to Handler.close() from their close() methods.
Exception info can be passed as a tuple in exc_info.
shutdown() is registered to be called at application exit.

Corrections to comments.
Tracebacks can now be sent via SocketHandler.
SocketHandler now uses exponential backoff strategy.
Handlers now chain to Handler.close() from their close() methods.

Corrections to comments.
Added RESET_ERROR definition.

- comment out documentation for a non-existant feature (--spec-file)
  that the comments indicate isn't clearly needed
- lots of minor markup adjustments to get a more consistent
  presentation

  the term Installer (always capitalized, however)
- generalize the text about the term "installer" in a fairly
  reasonable way

functions made available in the post-installation script run by the
Windows installer

recent gcc on Linux/x86)

[ 899109 ] 1==float('nan')

by implementing rich comparisons for floats.

Seems to make comparisons involving NaNs somewhat less surprising
when the underlying C compiler actually implements C99 semantics.

right; (2) write_results_file() didn't return a tuple of two ints when
it couldn't create the file.  Will backport.