object, rather than through the distribution itself (since I moved the meta-
data out to a DistributionMetadata instance).

manifest template.

for all commands except 'prune' and 'graft'.

and now actually works.

to add the "display metadata" options: --name, --version, --author,
and so forth.  Main changes:
  * added 'display_options' class attribute to list all the "display only"
    options (--help-commands plus the metadata options)
  * added DistributionMetadata class as a place to put the actual
    metadata information from the setup script (not to be confused with
    the metadata display options); the logic dealing with metadata
    (eg. return self.name or "UNKNOWN") is now  in this class
  * changed 'parse_command_line()' to use the new OO interface provided
    by fancy_getopt, mainly so we can get at the original order of
    options on the command line, so we can print multiple lines of
    distribution meta-data in the order specified by the user
  * added 'handle_display_options()' to handle display-only options
Also fixed some crufty old comments/docstrings.

Added 'set_option_table()' method.
Added missing 'self' to 'get_option_order()'.
Cosmetic/comment/docstring tweaks.

leaving in its place a tiny wrapper around the FancyGetopt class
for backwards compatibility.

class.  (Mainly this was to support the ability to go back after the
getopt operation is done and get extra information about the parse,
in particular the original order of options seen on the command line.
But it's a big improvement and should make it a lot easier to add
functionality in the future.)

Reformatted wide paragraphs.

'\textbackslash'.

 option.

(4-space indents already used.)

in the Makefile that start with "./" to be absolute paths (with the
implied root being the directory where the Makefile itself was found).

information from config.h.  Code is still there in case someone in the
future needs to parse an autoconf-generated config.h file.

Two small fixes to 'link_shared_object()'.

values. Untested by me.

<bozon@natur.cuni.cz>.

(Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)

explanation of why you'd want to use it.

Based on a question from Michael Simcich <msimcich@accesstools.com>.

  - DistutilsOptionError is now documented as it's actually used, ie.
    to indicate bogus option values (usually user options, eg. from
    the command-line)
  - added DistutilsSetupError to indicate errors that definitely arise
    in the setup script
  - got rid of DistutilsValueError, and changed all usage of it to
    either DistutilsSetupError or ValueError as appropriate
  - simplified a bunch of option get/set methods in Command and
    Distribution classes -- just pass on AttributeError most of
    the time, rather than turning it into something else

Note that comparisons of deeply nested objects can still dump core in
extreme cases.

The following adds support for RTSP (RFC2326) URLs to the standard
urlparse.py module.

(Augmented by FLD to include rtspu:, specified in the same RFC & OK'd
by Anthony.)

with ":".

Started spewing "Creating Built Distributions" section.

rather than cobbling them togethere here.

'native_path()'.

  than we actually use, and do actually use AR and SO.
Run ranlib on static libraries.  (Should probably have a platform-check
  so we don't run ranlib when it's not necessary, ie. on most modern
  Unices.)

on Unix either, so should probably disappear entirely.)

suggestion from Greg Stein.

	major, minor, micro, level, serial

Values are now monotonically increasing with each new release.

explained).

is a string "a2", "b1", "c1", or '' for a final release.

Added version_info and hexversion to the module docstring.