by trying to use CVS under Windows at all ...

- added test suite

another typo caught by Rob Hooft

update configure files (turn --with-cycle-gc on for beta release?)

Berkeley DB 2.0 or newer; most Linux distros will include a more recent
version than 1.85.

new winreg module.

Make some references between the distutils documents hyperlinks using
the \citetitle markup.

Note that configure hadn't been checked in a few times so it has more
changes, catching up with the last few changes to congifure.in as
well.

This patch fixes possible overflows in the socket module for 64-bit
platforms (mainly Win64). The changes are:

- abstract the socket type to SOCKET_T (this is SOCKET on Windows, int
on Un*x), this is necessary because sizeof(SOCKET) > sizeof(int) on
Win64

- use INVALID_SOCKET on Win32/64 for an error return value for
accept()

- ensure no overflow of the socket variable for: (1) a PyObject return
value (use PyLong_FromLongLong if necessary); and (2) printf
formatting in repr().

Closes SourceForge patch #100516.

autoheader revealed this.

Tim posted a long comment to python-dev (subject: "Controversial patch
(cmath)"; date: 6/29/00).  The conclusion is that this whole module
stinks and this patch isn't perfect, but it's better than the acosh
and asinh we had, so let's check it in.

Removed all but one XXX.
Replaced 1.6 with 2.0.
Various minor corrections and additions.

- fixed compiler problems when using locale/unicode flags

- fixed group/octal code parsing in sub/subn templates

misc/install.c, still needs to be updated, and it looks like a non-trivial
change.

group reset problem.  in the meantime, I added some
optimizations:

- added "inline" directive to LOCAL

  (this assumes that AC_C_INLINE does what it's
  supposed to do).  to compile SRE on a non-unix
  platform that doesn't support inline, you have
  to add a "#define inline" somewhere...

- added code to generate a SRE_OP_INFO primitive

- added code to do fast prefix search

  (enabled by the USE_FAST_SEARCH define; default
  is on, in this release)

otherwise just generate an '/export:' option.

fail do we try for win32api/win32con.  If *those* both fail, then we don't
have registry access.  Phew!

is not needed anywhere.

More reformatting by me.
Also added some editorial comments.

This patch fixes a possible overflow in the Sleep system call on
Win32/64 in the time_sleep() function in the time module. For very
large values of the give time to sleep the number of milliseconds can
overflow and give unexpected sleep intervals. THis patch raises an
OverflowError if the value overflows.

Closes SourceForge patch #100514.

This patch fixes the posix module for large file support mainly on
Win64, although some general cleanup is done as well.

The changes are:

- abstract stat->STAT, fstat->FSTAT, and struct stat->STRUCT_STAT
This is because stat() etc. are not the correct functions to use on
Win64 (nor maybe on other platforms?, if not then it is now trivial to
select the appropriate one). On Win64 the appropriate system functions
are _stati64(), etc.

- add _pystat_fromstructstat(), it builds the return tuple for the
fstat system call. This functionality was being duplicated. As well
the construction of the tuple was modified to ensure no overflow of
the time_t elements (sizeof(time_t) > sizeof(long) on Win64).

- add overflow protection for the return values of posix_spawnv and
posix_spawnve

- use the proper 64-bit capable lseek() on Win64

- use intptr_t instead of long where appropriate from Win32/64 blocks
(sizeof(void*) > sizeof(long) on Win64)

This closes SourceForge patch #100513.

Mark Hammond provided (a long time ago) a better Win32 specific
time_clock implementation in timemodule.c. The library for this
implementation does not exist on Win64 (yet, at least). This patch
makes Win64 fall back on the system's clock() function for
time_clock().

This closes SourceForge patch #100512.

64-bit readiness (the config values are needed for patches that I will
be submitting later today. The changes are as follows:

- add SIZEOF_OFF_T #define's to PC/config.h (it was already in configure.in)

- add SIZEOF_TIME_T #define to PC/config.h and configure
Needed for some buffer overflow checking because sizeof(time_t) is
different on Win64.

- add SIZEOF_FPOS_T #define
Needed for the Win64 large file support implementation.

- add SIZEOF_HKEY in PC/config.h only
Needed for proper Win32 vs. Win64 handling in PC/winreg.c

- #define HAVE_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT for Win64

- typedef long intptr_t; for all Windows except Win64 (which defines it
itself)
This is a new ANSI (I think) type that is useful (and used by me) for
proper handling in msvcrtmodule.c and posixmodule.c

- indent the nested #ifdef's and #defines in PC/config.h
This is *so* much more readable. There cannot be a compiler
compatibilty issue here can there? Perl uses indented #defines and it
compiles with everything.

exceptions in the interpreter and standard library.