reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.

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  r77704 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-23 10:23:15 +0100 (Sat, 23 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  taking sysconfig out of distutils
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  r77752 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-26 00:19:56 +0100 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  switched the call order so this call works without suffering from issue #7774
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  r76956 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-21 02:22:46 +0100 (Mon, 21 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  massive import cleaning in Distutils
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  r75893 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-28 00:06:10 +0100 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #1180: Option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils
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  r62998 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-10 15:51:55 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 7 lines

  #1858 from Tarek Ziade:
  Allow multiple repositories in .pypirc; see http://wiki.python.org/moin/EnhancedPyPI
  for discussion.

  The patch is slightly revised from Tarek's last patch: I've simplified
  the PyPIRCCommand.finalize_options() method to not look at sys.argv.
  Tests still pass.
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  r63000 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-10 15:59:16 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Cleaned up io._BytesIO.write().

  I am amazed that the old code, for inserting null-bytes, actually
  worked. Who wrote that thing? Oh, it is me... doh.
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  r63002 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-10 16:52:01 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert r62998 as it broke the build (seems distutils.config is missing).
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  r63014 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-10 18:12:38 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 1 line

  #1858: add distutils.config module
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  r63027 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-10 21:09:32 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Flesh out the 3.0 deprecation to suggest using the ctypes module.
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  r63028 | skip.montanaro | 2008-05-10 22:59:30 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 4 lines

  Copied two versions of the example from the interactive session.  Delete
  one.
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  r63037 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 03:02:17 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  reload() takes the module itself.
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  r63038 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-11 03:06:04 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 4 lines

  Added test framework for handling module renames.
  Factored the import guard in test_py3kwarn.TestStdlibRemovals into
  a context manager, namely test_support.CleanImport.
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  r63039 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 03:06:05 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2742: ``''`` is not converted to NULL in getaddrinfo.
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  r63040 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-11 03:08:12 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed typo in a comment of test_support.CleanImport.
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  Removed a dead line of code.
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  r63043 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 04:47:53 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2812: document property.getter/setter/deleter.
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  r63049 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 05:06:30 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #1153769: document PEP 237 changes to string formatting.
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  r63050 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 05:11:40 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2809: elaborate str.split docstring a bit.
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  r63051 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:13:59 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r63052 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:33:27 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2709: clarification.
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  r63053 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:42:28 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2659: add ``break_on_hyphens`` to TextWrapper.
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  r63057 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:59:39 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2741: clarification of value range for address_family.
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  r63058 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 07:09:35 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2452: timeout is used for all blocking operations.
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  r63059 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-11 09:33:56 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #1792: Improve performance of marshal.dumps() on large objects by increasing
  the size of the buffer more quickly.
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  r63060 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-11 10:00:00 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 1 line

  #1858: re-apply patch for this, adding the missing files
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  r63061 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-11 10:13:25 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add the "until" command to pdb
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  r63062 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 10:17:13 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add some sentence endings.
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  r62127 | trent.nelson | 2008-04-03 08:39:17 -0700 (Thu, 03 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Remove the building of Berkeley DB step; _bsddb44.vcproj takes care of this for us now.
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  r62136 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-03 16:07:55 -0700 (Thu, 03 Apr 2008) | 9 lines

  #1733757: the interpreter would hang on shutdown, if the function set by sys.settrace
  calls threading.currentThread.

  The correction somewhat improves the code, but it was close.
  Many thanks to the "with" construct, which turns python code into C calls.

  I wonder if it is not better to sys.settrace(None) just after
  running the __main__ module and before finalization.
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  r62141 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-04-03 21:51:19 -0700 (Thu, 03 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Doh! os.read() raises an OSError, not an IOError when it's interrupted.

  And fix some flakiness in test_itimer_prof, which could detect that the timer
  had reached 0 before the signal arrived announcing that fact.
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  r62142 | fred.drake | 2008-04-03 22:41:30 -0700 (Thu, 03 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  - Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, so the
    controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical script
    environment.  This supports setup.py scripts that refer to data files.
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  r62147 | fred.drake | 2008-04-04 04:31:14 -0700 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008) | 6 lines

  my previous change did what I said it should not: it changed the current
  directory to the directory in which the setup.py script lived (which made
  __file__ wrong)

  fixed, with test that the script is run in the current directory of the caller
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  r62148 | fred.drake | 2008-04-04 04:38:51 -0700 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  stupid, stupid, stupid!
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  r62150 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-04-04 09:48:19 -0700 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Oops again. EINTR is in errno, not signal.
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  Minor edits
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  Markup fix; explain what interval timers do; typo fix
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  Various edits
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  r62161 | neal.norwitz | 2008-04-04 21:26:31 -0700 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008) | 9 lines

  Prevent test_sqlite from hanging on older versions of sqlite.
  The problem is that when trying to do the second insert, sqlite seems to sleep
  for a very long time.  Here is the output from strace:

    read(6, "SQLite format 3\0\4\0\1\1\0@  \0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 1024) = 1024
    nanosleep({4294, 966296000},  <unfinished ...>

  I don't know which version this was fixed in, but 3.2.1 definitely fails.
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There's one major and one minor category still unfixed:
doctests are the major category (and I hope to be able to augment the
refactoring tool to refactor bona fide doctests soon);
other code generating print statements in strings is the minor category.

(Oh, and I don't know if the compiler package works.)

(a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V"
(b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable)
(c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block

Not all code has been fixed yet; this is just a checkpoint...
The C API still has PyDict_HasKey() and _HasKeyString(); not sure
if I want to change those just yet.

added support for the provides, requires, and obsoletes metadata fields

This support was only a first cut, and doesn't deserve to be in
a released version (where we have to support it in an ongoing
manner)

requires and provides. requires is a sequence of strings, of the
form 'packagename-version'. The dependency checking so far merely
does an '__import__(packagename)' and checks for packagename.__version__
You can also leave off the version, and any version of the package
will be installed.
There's a special case for the package 'python' - sys.version_info
is used, so
requires= ( 'python-2.3', )
just works.

Provides is of the same format as requires - but if it's not supplied,
a provides is generated by adding the version to each entry in packages,
or modules if packages isn't there.
Provides is currently only used in the PKG-INFO file. Shortly, PyPI
will grow the ability to accept these lines, and register will be
updated to send them.

There's a new command 'checkdep' command that runs these checks.
For this version, only greater-than-or-equal checking is done. We'll
add the ability to specify an optional operator later.

From SF patch #852334.

   have two tuples listing the legal keywords for setup() and Extension()

    suggested by PEP 291.

  Fixed by catching all exceptions that are subclasses of DistutilsError,
  so only the error message will be printed.  You can still get the
  whole traceback by enabling the Distutils debugging mode.

See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2002-November/003039.html

   whether the Distutils being used supports a particularly capability.

   (This idea was originally suggested by Juergen Hermann as a method
    on the Distribution class.  I think it makes more sense as a
    function in core.py, and that's what this patch implements.)

Note that distutils.core.DEBUG still works if client code uses it, but
the core code avoids circular references by using distutils.debug.

Fixes a bug for Solaris pkgtool (bdist_pkgtool) that would have
prevented it from building subpackages.

This is a conservative version of SF patch 504889.  It uses the log
module instead of calling print in various places, and it ignores the
verbose argument passed to many functions and set as an attribute on
some objects.  Instead, it uses the verbosity set on the logger via
the command line.

The log module is now preferred over announce() and warn() methods
that exist only for backwards compatibility.

XXX This checkin changes a lot of modules that have no test suite and
aren't exercised by the Python build process.  It will need
substantial testing.

fairly tight control, and the '_setup_stop_after' and '_setup_distribution'
globals to provide the tight control.

This isn't entirely reliable yet: it dies horribly with a NameError on the
example PIL setup script in examples/pil_setup.py (at least with Python
1.5.2; untested with current Python).  There's some strangeness going
on with execfile(), but I don't understand it and don't have time
to track it down right now.

Changed 'core.setup()' so it sets them to reasonable defaults.
Tweaked how the "usage" string is generated: 'core' now provides
  'gen_usage()', which is used instead of 'USAGE'.
Modified "build_py" and "sdist" commands to refer to
  'self.distribution.script_name' rather than 'sys.argv[0]'.

muddling through IOError and OSError exception objects right here.

do so if DEBUG is true.

"from distutils.core import" it.