than rolling our own with fancy_getopt's 'longopt_xlate' global.

Removed script options -- don't think they ever worked, weren't
  very well thought through, etc.

with the bdist_* commands.

"no", "0", etc. to true/false.

  * options can now be spelled "foo-bar" or "foo_bar" (handled in
    'parse_config_files()', just after we parse a file)
  * added a "[global]" section so there's a place to set global
    options like verbose/quiet and dry-run
  * respect the "negative alias" dictionary so (eg.) "quiet=1" is
    the same as "verbose=0" (this had to be done twice: once in
    'parse_config_file()' for global options, and once in
    '_set_command_options()' for per-command options)
  * the other half of handling boolean options correctly: allow
    commands to list their boolean options in a 'boolean_options'
    class attribute, and use it to translate strings (like "yes", "1",
    "no", "0", etc) to true or false

- use unidb compression for the unicodedata module.  on Windows,
  the new unidatabase module is 120k, down from nearly 600k.

        avoid compiler warnings.

Handle the ****/**** appleevent wildcard when called as a main program, so that it becomes a handy debugging tool (BuildApplet, copy aete resource, apply applescript to it).

Added a workaround for shortcomings in the OSA support: there can be class/property conflicts and passing classes as arguments doesn't work. The package now seems to work.

- use unidb compression for the unicodedata module.  on Windows,
  the new unidatabase module is 120k, down from nearly 600k.

xml.sax: Fix parse and parseString not to rely on ExpatParser
         Greatly simplify import logic by using __import__
saxutils: Support Unicode strings and files as parameters to
          prepare_input_source

- use unidb compression for the unicodedata module.  on Windows,
  the new unidatabase module is 120k, down from nearly 600k.

Tiny bug fix to expatreader.py (endDocument was only called after errors).

db_185.h has renamed that function to __db185_open, which it does in DB 3.1.
So don't check whether the function is in -ldb.

The earlier code assumed "protocol=host;protocol=host;..." or "host",
but Windows may also use "protocol=host" (just one entry), as well as
"protocol://host".  This code needs some more work, so I'll leave the
bug open for now.

Bug fixes to XMLFilterBase (wrong ignorableWhitespace signature and
did not inherit set*Handler methods from XMLReader.)

tuple instead two arguments.