must be literally contained here, because it is still possible to
install this distutils in older Python versions.

If someone has other ideas for the numbering scheme, please change to
something else (1.1.0 ?).

    suggested by PEP 291.

before this get forgotten again.
Should probably be set to 1.0.2 before final release of python 2.1

Does someone still release distutils separate from python?

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

ignore zero-byte files: grr...).