Nav and AE have been moved to core toolbox modules: fixup dependent modules, export symbol list, etc.

Modified for new builtin exceptions.c.

Changed the API names for setting the default encoding.
These are now in line with the other hooks API names
(no underscores).

Change the default encoding to 'ascii' (it was previously
defined as UTF-8).

Note: The implementation still uses UTF-8 to implement
the buffer protocol, so C APIs will still see UTF-8. This
is on purpose: rather than fixing the Unicode implementation,
the C APIs should be made Unicode aware.

The locale module is turned on per default.

Added some more codec aliases. Some of them are needed by the
new locale.py encoding support.

Added support to set the default encoding of strings
at startup time to the values defined by the C locale.

The sys.setdefaultencoding() API is deleted after having
set up the encoding, so that user code cannot subsequentely
change the setting. This effectively means that only site.py
may alter the default setting.

Added a new locale name aliasing engine which also supports
locale encodings, a feature which is used by the new default
encoding support in site.py.

codec can be used to effectively switch off string coercion
to Unicode.

by Mark Hammond <markh@activestate.com>.

Limited markup & consistency revisions by FLD.

values that "--foo" can take for various commands: eg. what formats for
"sdist" and "bdist", what compilers for "build_ext" and "build_clib".

I have *not* reviewed this patch; I'm checking it in as-is because it also
fixes a paper-bag-over-head bug in bdist.py, and because I won't have
time to review it properly for several days: so someone else can
test it for me, instead!

and call it "distutils.cfg" instead of "pydistutils.cfg" (personal
config files are still ".pydistutils.cfg" or "pydistutils.cfg", though).

Look for personal config file in /home/greg on Windows, too: users will have
to set /home/greg to use this, so it's not something that many people will
use.  But if python-dev comes up with the "right way" to divine a
home directory on Windows, we can use that to set /home/greg and poof! --
personal Distutils config files on Windows.

	Fix a small bug in posixmodule.c where a char* is being
	dereferenced where it should not be.

one doesn't *do* anything by default; it's just there as a conduit for data
(eg. include dirs, libraries) from the user to the "build" commands.
However, it provides a couple of Autoconf-ish methods ('try_compile()',
'try_link()', 'try_run()') that derived, per-distribution "config" commands
can use to poke around the target system and see what's available.

Initial experimenst with mxDateTime indicate that higher-level methods are
necessary: analogs of Autoconf's AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_LIB will be
needed too (and that's just to probe the C/C++ system: how to probe the
Python system is wide open, and someday we'll have to worry about probing a
Java system too).

command being reinitialized to false.

Define USE_GUSI2, not USE_GUSI1. PythonStandalone still doesn't compile due to tk issues, though, but it isn't important right now.

Added a CARBON indicator to the version string.

Half-fixed RPM 2 compatibility:added 'rpm_base' option, which must be set
  (to eg. /usr/src/redhat on a stock Red Hat system) if rpm2_mode is on.
  Still not quite working, though.

spelled sensibly in a config file.

Fills in question marks in help

Reads scripts in from files rather than strings

Adds RPM 2 compatibility mode (untested). Use of this mode requires that
--bdist-base be specified because bdist_rpm has no way of detecting where
RPM wants to find spec files and source files. An unmodified RedHat 5.0
system would require '--bdist-base=/usr/src/RedHat'. (You would also have
to be root.) If the rpmrc file has been modified to allow RPMs to be built
by normal users then --build-base would need to be changed accordingly.

Formats the changelog.

GPW: tweaked formatting, added some editorial comments.

and added 'ensure_dirname()'.

command class, so they're now in the Command base class.

(and in order to generate a more sensible error message cleanly).

   from Greg Stein