Document some things in the 2.0 NEWS files that should be mentioned here.

  - 'mkpath()' the distribution dir in case of empty manifest
  - warn if empty manifest
  - detect, warn about, and skip non-regular files in manifest

  bug to boot: now works even if both MANIFEST and MANIFEST.in don't exist.
Don't hardcode setup.py, use 'self.distribution.script_name'.

better explanation of manifest files, in particular.

"manual" class documents.

2.0b1 for Windows will not have bothered getting 1.6.  Also changed
"Changed, New, Obsolete Tools" to say "None" since nobody had put an entry
there.

Removed some attributions from the shorter entries in Changed Modules,
because that section is so long.

installer.

or other clarifications, with the occasional plug for BeOpen
PythonLabs thrown in.  Also added a trademarks disclaimer.

The \\ introduced in the \author in boilerplate.tex broke the PDF
generation because line breaks are not allowed in the "Document Info"
metadata stored in the PDF file.  This changes the line break to
a ", " (comma-space) in that context.

This does not change the HTML or PostScript output.

as main.c.

XXX notes for now.

I could use help here!!!!  Please mail me patches ASAP.  We may have
to put some of this off to 2.0final, but it's best to have it in shape
now...

to the new docs.
Added a description to the Tcl/Tk file copies.

directory.

    "Type \"copyright\", \"credits\" or \"license\" for more information."

display the information you would expect them to display.

nor sufficient to make Python 2.0 compatible with the GPL, we won't
bother with it now.

In other words, we're still where we were weeks ago -- CNRI believes
that its license is GPL-compatible, Stallman says it's not.  I'm
trying to arrange a meeting between their lawyers so they can work it
out.  Whether dual licensing is the solution is open at this point.
If it is the (only!) solution, we'll add that to the BeOpen license
for 2.0 final.

Added a few clarifying footnotes and cross-references.
Various minor tweaks.

of distribution files in ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src/).