Ditched my old code that fixed relative paths in the Makefile -- didn't work,
  doomed to failure, etc.

the 'implib_dir' attribute is back (only on NT, of course).

Also supposedly made some change to where .lib files wind up under MSVC++,
  but I don't understand how to code is doing what Thomas says it's
  doing.

Added 'check_lib()', which provides a subset of the functionality of
  'check_func()' with a simpler interface and implementation.

and I lack the time to track down the cause.

parsing the sample data once with 8-bit strings and once with Unicode.

This version still includes #ifdef hackery to compile with 1.5.2.

curses.ascii.

connections.

Kludged the extra-wide table that summarizes the manifest template language
  (works with LaTeX, but is an *evil* kludge and could well break LaTeX2HTML
  or similar...).

doesn't blow up.  We don't currently use the 'set_executables()' bureaucracy,
although it would be nice to do so for consistency with UnixCCompiler.

Ensure that 'extra_args' (whether compile or link args) is never None.

to 'msvc_prelink_hack()', adding the parameters that it actually needs,
and only calling it for MSVC compiler objects.  Generally gave up on the
idea of a general "hook" mechanism: deleted the empty 'precompile_hook()'.

  experimental and untested.)
Call 'customize_compiler()' after getting CCompiler object.

information about building Python extensions that we discovered in
Python's makefile.  Currently only needed on Unix, so does nothing on
other systems.

that a particular compiler system depends on.  This consists of the
'set_executables()' and 'set_executable()' methods, and a few lines in
the constructor that expect implementation classes to provide an
'executables' attribute, which we use to initialize several instance
attributes.  The default implementation is somewhat biased in favour of
a Unix/DOS "command-line" view of the world, but it shouldn't be too
hard to override this for operating systems with a more sophisticated
way of representing programs-to-execute.

meant playing along with the new "dictionary of executables" scheme
added to CCompiler by adding the 'executables' class attribute, and
changing all the compile/link/etc. methods to use the new attributes
(which encapsulate both the program to run and its standard arguments,
so it was a *little* bit more than just changing some names).

Unix shell-like syntax (eg. in Python's Makefile, for one thing -- now that
I have this function, I'll probably allow quoted strings in config files too.

Fixed a few comments.

Tweaked help text.

the "install_data" command to the installation base, which is usually just
sys.prefix.  (Any setup scripts out there that specify data files will have
to set the installation directory, relative to the base, explicitly.)

on if it sees a filename with unknown extension.

in the module of the command classes that have command-specific
help options.  This lets us keep the principle of lazily importing
the ccompiler module, and also gets away from defining non-methods
at class level.

accomodate SWIG interface files, resource files, etc.).