Cygwin's pthread_sigmask() implementation appears to be buggy. This
patch works around this problem by using sigprocmask() instead.

This patch is implemented in a general way so it could be used by other
platforms too. If this approach is deemed too risky, then I can work up
a patch that just hacks Python/thread_pthread.h for Cygwin.

Note that I tested this patch against 2.3c1 under Red Hat Linux 8.0 too.

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And finally, I need someone to regenerate pyconfig.h.in and configure
with the same versions of the autotools that are normally used by
Python.

Neal kindly regenerated pyconfig.h.in and configure for me.

fixed. It also attempts to force boot-disk-only installs, but this seems to
lead to a problem that you have to deselect and reselect the installation disk.
If no-one comes up with a fix RSN I'll revert to the previous situation and
explain in the readme that you cannot install on a non-system-disk.

are satisfied in a case-insensitive manner, the attempt to import (the
non-existent) fcntl gets satisfied by FCNTL.py instead, and the tempfile
module defines a Unix-specific _set_cloexec() function in that case.  As
a result, temp files can't be created then (blows up with an AttributeError
trying to reference fcntl.fcntl).  This just popped up in the spambayes
project, where there is no apparent workaround (which is why I'm pushing
this in now).

Part of SF patch #773007.

Also fixed a number of mostly cosmetic markup errors.

Part of SF patch #773007.

Part of SF patch #773007.

Part of SF patch #773007.

may cause some tests to fail but it prevents them from hanging.

This lead to a duplication of error messages (and installs). Fixes #764615.

happen while parsing a plistfile feeding an ill-formatted file to
pimp may cause an exception. As a stopgap we use an unqualified except
and print an error message "Unspecified error, probably ill-formatted
database". Fixes #765621.

Pimp crashed if you tried to install a non-installable package, in stead
of printing a decent error message. Fixes #773450..

setting of sCursor happened in an assert.

This patch was provided by Jeremy Kloth, and corresponds to pyexpat.c
1.77 in the PyXML CVS.

Closes SF bug #774480.

Make some module references hyperlinks.

New Plan (releases to be made off the head, ongoing random 2.4 stuff
to be done on a short-lived branch, provided anyone is motivated enough
to create one).

hyphen, resulting in the output '-list-classifiers', not the correct
'--list-classifiers'.  I've verified that the line is now correct
in the DVI, PDF, HTML, and ASCII versions.

choice to the list of places MS redistributables might be found.

If some other test comes along and uses mimetypes, it will be
initialized from the system files.

If this doesn't happen, it leaves the locale in a state that can cause
other tests to fail.  For example, running test_strptime,
test_logging, and test_time in that order.

Remove comment about MacOS changes; I'm not going to have time to figure
    out what they are
Move PEP 273 section into numeric order

Complete the rewrite pass; add a few more items; bump version number to 0.90; remove comment about draft status