The Setup.in entry is sort of a lie; it links with -lexpat, but
    Expat's Makefile doesn't actually build a libexpat.a.  I'll send
    Expat's author a patch to do that; if he doesn't accept it, this
    rule will have to list Expat's object files (ick!), or have a
    comment explaining how to build a .a file.

Kuchling.

NOTE: THIS IS VERY ROUGH ALPHA CODE!

NOTE: THIS IS VERY ROUGH ALPHA CODE!

option to disable this (by default, it's false and we clean up).

we still have to *run* the sub-command that creates a built distribution.

multiple built distributions in one run -- it seemed a bit dodgy and I'd
rather remove it than try to beat it into submission right now.

Added 'ztar', 'tar' to 'format_command' dictionary.

eg. sunos5, linux2, irix5.

now done in the 'build_ext' command.

  * build to "Debug" or "Release" temp directory
  * put linker turds (.lib and .exp files) in the build temp directory
  * tack on "_d" to extensions built with debugging
  * added 'get_ext_libname()' help in putting linker turds to temp dir
Also, moved the code that simplifies None to empty list for a bunch
  of options to 'finalize_options()' instead of 'run()'.

specific to building Python extensions.

None in an argument list *terminates* the argument list: further
arguments are *ignored*.  This isn't kosher, but too much code relies
on it, implicitly.  For example, IDLE was pretty broken.

installs Tcl/Tk.

Simplified 'Command.get_peer_option()' a tad -- just call 'find_peer()'
  to get the peer command object.
Updated 'Command.copy_file()' to take a 'link' parameter, just like
  'util.copy_file()' does now.
Added 'Command.make_archive()' to wrap 'util.make_archive()'.

Changes to 'copy_file()':
  * added support for making hard links and symlinks
  * noted that it silently clobbers existing files when copying, but
    blows up if destination exists when linking -- hmmm...
  * error message tweak
Added 'base_name' parameter to 'make_tarball()' and 'make_zipfile()'.
Added 'make_archive()' -- wrapper around 'make_tarball()' or
  'make_zipfile()' to take care of the archive "root directory".

the command that actually creates "dumb" binary distributions, ie.
tarballs and zip files that you just unpack under <prefix> or <exec-prefix>.
Very limited, but it's a start.

Initial revision is pretty limited; it only knows how to generate "dumb"
binary distributions, i.e. a tarball on Unix and a zip file on Windows.
Also, due to limitations in the installation code, it only knows how to
distribute Python library code.  But hey, it's a start.

Added 'get_inputs()' (which is strikingly similar to 'get_outputs()' - sigh).
Cosmetic tweaks.

  provided by Distribution.
Cosmetic and error message tweaks.
Simplified 'make_release_tree()':
  * extracted 'distutils.util.create_tree()'
  * don't have to do hard-linking ourselves -- it's now handled by
    'distutils.util.copy_file()' (although the detection of
    whether hard linking is available still needs to be factored out)
Removed 'make_tarball()' and 'make_zipfile()' entirely -- their role
  is now amply filled by 'distutils.util.make_archive()'.
Simplified 'make_distribution()':
  * use Distribution's new 'get_full_name()' method
  * use 'make_archive()' instead of if/elif/.../else on the archive format

Some refinements on the Wise file, also adding mmap.pyd.

in scope on systems where mode_t isn't the same size as int...

override)

add missing DECREFs in error handling code of CALL_FUNCTION

was a superfluous check for the platform.

Reformatted for 8-space tabs and fitted into 80-char lines by GvR.

Mark writes:

* the Win32 version now accepts the same args as the Unix version.
The win32 specific "tag" param is now optional.  The end result is
that the exact same test suite runs on Windows (definately a worthy
goal!).

* I changed the error object.  All occurences of the error, except
for 1, corresponds to an underlying OS error.  This one was changed
to a ValueError (a better error for that condition), and the module
error object is now simply EnvironmentError.  All win32 error
routines now call the new Windows specific error handler.

can't remember who. :-)  Changes:

- Support for Windows NT (different locking behavior)
- Added a logging mechanism

can't remember who. :-)  Changes:

- Owner name+email made generic instead of GvR
- Support for Windows NT (running from a .bat file)
- DOcument <HTML>...</HTML> tags