Bumped version number to 0.9pre (there will be a couple of code snapshots

before the real release, but I want to make it clear that a major new
release is on the way).

Lib/distutils/__init__.py

@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ used from a setup script as
 
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
-__version__ = "0.8.2"
+__version__ = "0.9pre"