distutils or external build processes can find them.

parameter.

popen2 is also complaining probably for similar reasons.
make install always reports failure, so don't mail in this case.

Will backport to 2.5.

Py_ssize_t members.

Simplify the implementation of UnicodeError objects:
start and end attributes are now stored directly as
Py_ssize_t members, which simplifies various get and
set functions.

Will backport to 2.5.

Build sqlite3.dll and bsddb.

(for ReleaseAMD64 builds).

Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the
right thing to do?).

right thing to do?).

Set the /XP64 /RETAIL build enviroment in the makefile when building
ReleaseAMD64.

a new optional timeout parameter, and a versionadded flag to
the socket.create_connection function.

or "K" codes.

Will backport

to disable it and only import msvccompiler on Windows since that's
the only place it can work anyways.

Will backport.

Move an import in mworkscompiler so that this module can be imported on
any platform.  Hopefully this works on all platforms.

This also catches another condition that can overflow.

Will backport.