SF patch #436376.

back-out 1.215 of configure.in and 1.34 of Makefile.pre.in
Check for -Kpthread compiler support, and use this as the sole option
for MT if available.

bug #442627.

Reorganize so the initialization sequences does not bite us in the foot.
(There is no good reason to discard classes that clients may want to
subclass.)

Bump version number
Insert a few blank lines here and there

Note the actual date of 2.1's release

Do more to ensure we don't do any more formatting than we need to.
Use separate targets for the distribution packages for paper-based and
non-paper-based formats; this avoids some extra packaging when a complete
distribution is being built with both paper sizes.

more of them.

The ob_sval member of a string object isn't necessarily aligned to better
than a native long, so the new "q" and "Q" struct codes can't get away w/
casting tricks on platforms where LONG_LONG requires stricter-than-long
alignment.  After I thought of a few elaborate workarounds, Guido bashed
me over the head with the obvious memcpy approach, herewith implemented.

seems to do), the user may not be aware of its contents.  Attempt to add any
to _browsers.

closes bug #429136

sample startup script provided by Itamar Shtull-Trauring.

This closes SF patch #410890.

Add some logical markup where it was missing.

other documentation makefiles.  This is probably not sufficient to run
the conversion on Windows, but goes at least part way.

Minor local consistency adjustments.
A couple of small tweaks to the setdlopenflags() description.
For setprofile() and settrace(), convert some references to become
hyperlinks in the HTML version.

information.  (I found this idea in the ActivePython 2.1 diffs.)

descriptions; added availability notes.

Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.

These work again.

some of the mostly-general files get changed.

all platforms that offer tempnam().

file management functions that have just been made available on more
platforms.

Used an adapted MethodGenerator to generate methods too for functions that have the object as the second arg after a first CFAllocatorRef arg (which we pass as NULL always anyway).

os.tmpnam().