Gertzfield <che@debian.org> (with minor changes).

(Should have been here instead of in the branch in the first place,
since these weren't in for the 1.5.2 release.)

For a long time I've seen absurd tracebacks under -O (e.g., negative
line numbers), but very rarely.  Since I was looking at tracebacks
anyway, thought I'd track it down.  Turns out to be Guido's only
predictable blind spot <wink -- "char" is signed on some non-GvR
systems>.  Patch follows.

It breaks Mailman, it was actually documented in the docstring, so it
was an intentional deviation from the usual del semantics.  Let's
document the original behavior in Doc/lib/librfc822.tex.

the right variant of gethostbyname_r for us, since not all Linuxes are
equal in this respect.  Reported by Laurent Pointal.

(2) On BeOS, Chris Herborth reports that instead of arpa/inet.h you
must include net/netdb.h to get the inet_ntoa() and inet_addr()
prototypes.

module functions, to clarify that the import is not automatic.
Suggested by Koray Oner <Koray.Oner@Eng.Sun.COM>.

so that pure Python modules are installed to the platform-specific
directory if there are any extension modules in this distribution.

  specific files; it was somewhat broken, and the comments were dead
  wrong.
Now runs 'install_ext' command after 'install_py'.

actual extension module to.

Default platform-specific build directory changed to 'build/platlib'.

it doesn't recognize a lone dash as a non-flag argument.
Now it does.

Changed those two methods to only compile/link if necessary (according
  to simplistic timestamp checks).
Added 'output_dir' to 'object_filenames()' and 'shared_object_filename()'.

Terminology change in 'newer()'.
Made 'copy_tree' respect dry_run flag a little better.
Added 'move_file()'.

  signatures, and updated some docstrings to reflect it.
Some comments added.
Added 'announce()' and 'move_file()' methods.

Error message tweak in Command.set_option().
Added Command.get_peer_option().
Added Command.move_file() wrapper.

        raise KeyError instead of failing silently!

much breakage (esp. in JPython which holds absolute path names in
co_filename already).  This implementation uses os.path.abspath() as a
slightly better way to canonicalize path names.  It implements a
cache.

the file that a function is defined on.  Non-portable to Windows and
JPython.  Instead, new find_function() uses re module on a similar
(simple-minded) pattern.

the proper function to call is inet_addr().  Since we already had code
to do that (for MS-Windows), this simplifies things a lot!

names match the documentation.

Removed broken code that supports the __methods__ attribute on ast
objects; the right magic was added to Py_FindMethod() since this was
originally written.  <ast-object>.__methods__ now works, so dir() and
rlcompleter are happy.

tracefunc (or profilefunc -- we're not sure which), zap the global
trace and profile funcs so that we can't get into recursive loop when
instantiating the resulting class based exception.

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.