temporary directory ('bdist_base').
Added --dist-dir option to control where the executable is put.

they place their output files.

defaults to 'dist' (ie. no longer in the distribution root).

misc/install.c, still needs to be updated, and it looks like a non-trivial
change.

otherwise just generate an '/export:' option.

we can run "sdist" on a distribution with old-style extension structures
even if we haven't built it yet.  Bug spotted by Harry Gebel.

Changed 'prune_file_list()' so it also prunes out RCS and CVS directories.
Added 'is_regex' parameter to 'select_pattern()', 'exclude_pattern()',
  and 'translate_pattern()', so that you don't have to be constrained
  by the simple shell-glob-like pattern language, and can escape into
  full-blown regexes when needed.  Currently this is only available
  in code -- it's not exposed in the manifest template mini-language.
Added 'prune' option (controlled by --prune and --no-prune) to determine
  whether we call 'prune_file_list()' or not -- it's true by default.
Fixed 'negative_opt' -- it was misnamed and not being seen by dist.py.
Added --no-defaults to the option table, so it's seen by FancyGetopt.

'link_shared_object()'.

  command objects.
Various formatting tweaks, typo fixes in comments.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

manifest, regenerate the manifest.

(Bug spotted and originally fixed by Rene Liebscher; fix redone by me.)

'install_headers'.

'try_cpp()', 'search_cpp()', and 'check_header()'.  This is enough that
the base config is actually useful for implementing a real config
command, specifically one for mxDateTime.

and added (empty) 'precompile_hook()' for symmetry.  One can envision
a much more elaborate hook mechanism, but this looks like it'll do for
now.

passed None.

  template into a new method 'prune_file_list()', called from
  'get_file_list()' rather than 'read_manifest()' -- this keeps
  'read_manifest()' more general.
Deleted the redundant call to 'exclude_pattern()' in 'make_distribution()'
  -- this had the same intention as 'prune_file_list()', but was incomplete
  (only pruned the release tree, not the build tree) and in the wrong
  place (the prune wouldn't be reflected in the manifest file).

Deleted old, commented-out 'exclude_pattern()' method.