Added information on using non-Microsoft compilers on Windows.

[Minor edits for markup consistency. --FLD]

there is no need to clutter a reader's life with those useless things.

Suppress the "Contents" page for HTML; it is not needed for small documents
in the online environment since LaTeX2HTML generates lots of tables of links
anyway.

Various markup consistency nits.

Makefile.pre.in was added in 1.4

filenames on Windows (& Mac?) platforms.

documentation.

Wrote the "Distutils Configuration Files" section.

is where all the FAQs about extension-building will be answered.

does the right thing).

setup script.  Also added a comment about how it *should* work on Mac OS.

Make some references between the distutils documents hyperlinks using
the \citetitle markup.

useful (suggested by Moshe Zadka).

bad link URLs in HTML, etc.

Reformatted wide paragraphs.

'\textbackslash'.

 option.

for the idea).

more consistent with the rest of the Python docs.

Lots of scattered wording changes.

Started writing the "Standard Build and Install" section.

(also needed by inst.tex).

Added comment about "--help" (no value) not working.

it could work--reasonably short and straightforward to document, but
flexible enough that it will be able to handle more than just modules
and extensions in the future.

the simplified scheme that Guido proposed.  Also already-obsolete,
and saved only for posterity.

installation scheme that Fred Drake and I cooked up.  Only saved for
posterity.