This changes sys.version under Microsoft builds to include the MS compiler
version number (_MSC_VER).  Since VC 6 and VC 7 are apparently
incompatible, and both can be installed on a single box, distutils needs
some way to figure out which version of MSVC a given Python was compiled
under.

As also suggested by MvL, got rid of #ifdef'ery for the defunct _M_ALPHA
target.

Bugfix candidate?  Hard to say.  As far as I'm concerned, VC 7 wasn't
a supported platform in the 2.2 line.  If somebody thinks it should be,
they can do the work.

Fixes #636431.

  to it.
- Allow for symlinks in the applet template.

  IDLE (it was a fatal error before)
- Shuffled a few things around to facilitate the experimental building
  of MacPython for Jaguar's pre-installed python.

binary-vs-text-mode screwups.

idea what.  Added liberal XXX explanations for the next guy.

figure out what the code was doing.  The fixes were a combination of
closing open files before deletion, opening files in binary mode, and
plain skipping things that can't work on Windows (BaseTest.decompress
uses a process gimmick that doesn't exist on Windows, and, even if it
did, assumes a "bunzip2" executable is on PATH).

failing.

CAUTION:  The Python test still has many failures, but I'm out of time
for this now (already took much longer than hoped to get this far).
The base bz2 library does pass its own tests (see next).

CAUTION:  People building on Windows have to download and build tne
bz2 compression libraries now.  See PCbuild\readme.txt for complete
instructions.

bz2 tests to pass on Windows; most are still failing.

_PyString_Resize calls.

_PyString_Resize to int.

solely used to hold LONG_LONG values, and the compiler rightfully warns
about potential data loss otherwise.

bug 628246]

  Fixed by catching all exceptions that are subclasses of DistutilsError,
  so only the error message will be printed.  You can still get the
  whole traceback by enabling the Distutils debugging mode.

  (BZ2File_dealloc): Call Util_DropReadAhead().
  (*): Included aesthetic changes by Neal Norwitz.

    if people want to compile it, they should edit Modules/Setup, not setup.py