Will backport to 2.3 myself.

Will backport to 2.3

contents of an \item should not be enclosed in a group!

directories identified in the TEXINPUTS environment variable.
I think this is the last part of the fix for the version number
problems seen in the documentation for the 2.3.1 release.

also applied to release23-maint.

Note that aclocal.m4 can go away when autoconf 2.58 is out.

commontex/

better explain what's happening.

(commontex/), leaving only style support files in texinputs/.  This makes
texinputs/ part of the formatting tools while commontex/ is strictly part
of the actual documentation.

- make TEXINPUTS work the way it's supposed to in TeX-ish tools

that it works for all targets.

The issue here is that there are two different levels in the directory
tree at which we execute mkhowto, so we can't define it just once
using a relative path (at least not with the current implementation
and Makefile structure).  We use the GNUish $(shell) function here to
work around that restriction by identifying mkhowto using an absolute
path.

[2.3 bugfix candidate]

other application

Closes SF# 812152

Baskport candidate for release23-main

mostly only references glossary entries.

  "classic" class objects
  [partially fixes SF bug #453684]

- add note that new-style classes can use descriptors to implement
  instance variables in different ways

Forward ported from release23-maint.

Already 'backported' to release23-maint.

whole main page.

Support 2.3 and 2.4 docs in HTMLHelp format.

Already 'backported' to release-23maint.

given prefix rather than comparing a slice.

assertRaises.

NOT a bugfix candidate.

why in a new comment.  My home Win98SE box is one of the "real systems"
alluded to (my system "default sound" appears to have vanished sometime
in the last month, that's certainly not a Python bug, and the MS
PlaySound docs are correct in their explanation of what happens then).

Bugfix candidate.  If someone can still sneak it into 2.3.1, that would
be good.