(Removed at Ping's request.)

(Contributed by Jiwon Seo.)

LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS for library and include directories, respectively.  Solves
issue of either env var containing other options that do not pertain to the
directories being searched for.

- using a different database for non-final releases should only be done
  for X.Y.0. Non-final micro releases can use the default database just fine,
  as they are required to be backward compatible.

the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable to 10.3 when calling the
loader. And we do this with "env" because distutils apparently doesn't
understand environment variable assignments before command names.

[Bug #1083110] calling .flush() on decompress objects causes a segfault due to an uninitialized pointer: fixes the problem and adds a test case

option to various tools, and do the right thing when we're doing a destroot
install.

Will backport to 2.4 and 2.3.

to make using "-undefined dynamic_lookup" for linking extensions more
automatic on 10.3 and later. So if we're on that platform and
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is not set we now set it to the current OSX
version during configure. Additionally, distutils will pick up the
configure-time value by default.

Will backport.

needs to run it in the Makefile).

After installing a newer framework Python the apple-installed Python can
no longer build extension modules, because they will inadvertantly be linked
against the newer framework. This script modifies lib/config/Makefile so
it will link extensions with "-undefined dynamic_lookup", which forestalls
this problem.

Will backport to 2.4 and 2.3.

Closes bug #1085300.  Thanks unclewalrus.

a minor change after the coercion, to accept two objects not necessarily of
the same type but with the same tp_compare.

difference between __builtins__ and __builtin__ (based on an email comment)

exception.

was pending.  Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop().
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html

M NEWS.txt
M PyShell.py

trying to remove this file - the file was never removed before.

Fixes [ 1067732 ] wininst --install-script leaves residual files

Already backported.

Pass the full URL to find_user_password(), in particular so that hosts
with port numbers can be looked up.

Also specify the digest algorithm, even if it's MD5.  Titus Brown
verified that this fixes a problem with LiveJournal.

Bug fix candidate.