we no longer explicitly pull distribution options out of our Distribution
object, but rather let the Distribution put them into the command object.

  attributes, etc.  Biggest change was to the Distribution constructor
  -- it now looks for an 'options' attribute, which contains values
  (options) that are explicitly farmed out to the commands.  Also,
  certain options supplied to Distribution (ie. in the 'setup()' call in
  setup.py) are now "command option aliases", meaning they are dropped
  right into a certain command rather than being distribution options.
  This is handled by a new Distribution class attribute,
  'alias_options'.
Various comment changes to reflect the new way-of-thinking.
Added 'get_command_name()' method to Command -- was assuming its
  existence all along as 'command_name()', so changed the code that
  needs it to call 'get_command_name()'.

Ditched redundant '_gen_preprocess_options()' and '_gen_lib_options()'
  -- now provided by ccompiler.py.
Fixed some filename extension variables -- added missing period.
Cosmetic tweaks.

  now provided (minus the leading underscore) by the ccompiler module.
Fix 'compile()' to return the list of object files generated.
Cosmetic tweaks/delete cruft.

Added big comment about the kludginess of passing 'build_options'
  to the link methods and how to fix it.
Added 'gen_preprocess_options()' and 'gen_lib_options()' convenience
  functions -- the two cases are very similar for Unix C Compilers and
  VC++, so I figured I might as well unify the implementations.

Apparently os.name is "nt" or "posix" or we don't care.
Cosmetic tweaks.

Skip Montanaro's return-value patches.

be executed in all cases, not just when it's not a list, tuple or
dict.  Discovered by Christian Tismer.

for MSVCCompiler.

  - fix some broken abstract methods
  - kludge: add 'build_info' parameter to link methods
  - add 'object_name()' and 'shared_library_name()'
  - support for MSVCCompiler class on NT/Win95

(for Windows/CE).

characters; these are the ones for the buffer interface.

(Suggested by Moshe Zadka, but implemented differently.)

Add <<python-docs>> event which, on Unix, brings up Netscape pointing
to http://www.python.doc/current/ (a local copy would be nice but its
location can't be predicted).  Windows solution TBD.

Add a new section describing what each of the tools does, in general
terms.

references directly.

                \leq    --> ≤
                \LaTeX  --> LaTeX       (just text)
                \TeX    --> TeX         (just text)

        (must be named in the conversion spec.).

TableParser.start_entityref():  New method.  Use to support creating
        entity references via the conversion specification.

            silently ignore unrecognized lines.

        environment variable repeatedly.  I posted this to the list
        some time ago, but only now got around to asking g--d- what he
        thought about it.

"""
Added some optional arguments to the XMLParser __init__ method to
specify that selected non-standard constructs are to be accepted.
Also removed the documentation for handle_entityrefs since it isn't
used.
"""

The version is incremented to 0.3.

"""
Extended chunk so that it can also handle formats that are almost
according to EA IFF 85.  In particular, added options to handle
little-endian and to handle formats that include the header size in
the chunk size value.

Fixed a bug where the header size was included in the chunk size, which
it isn't according to EA IFF 85.

Added a new method getsize() to get the size of the chunk (excluding
header).

Fixed chunk documentation (TIFF doesn't look like it uses chunks).
Converted wave to use chunk.  Wave uses EA IFF 85 chunks except that
it uses little-endian encoding of integer data.

Removed __del__ methods from aifc and wave since I got an
AttributeError there upon exit.
"""

pass can be used if needed.  By Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.

Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.

Minor markup nits.