the changes are to support multiple versions (ie, trunk and 2.5).
Also check for conflicts in the .tex file when a release is cut.

copy.  This will hopefully catch problems where directories are added
under Lib/ but not to Makefile.pre.in.  This breaks out the 2 runs
of the test suite with and without -O which is also nicer.

issues that crop up from time to time, but this change seems to have been
pretty stable (no spurious warnings) for about a week.

Other modules which use threads may require similar use of
threading_setup/threading_cleanup from test_support.

report failures, we'll see.

Skip certain hopeless tests: compiler and logging.

compiler will likely always show varying leaks since it doesn't work
on a defined set of modules unless -u compiler is specified.  But that
takes forever (we only run with -u network currently).

logging causes hangs when running with -R.

(other than those in leakers).

This should cause few enough spurious warnings to send to python-checkins now.

If a test leaks that is not in the ignore list (LEAKY_TESTS), all tests
which leak will be reported.  This includes those in the ignore list.
Hopefully that will prompt someone to fix the flakiness.

Support 2.4 (released versions) better.  (rsync was not working with adding the *.  Only some files/dirs were copied, not everything.)

regrtest.py.  If we grep for just "fail", that finds bsddb deadlock
messages, which presumably are just warnings.  They don't cause
a test failure.

Thanks to Tony Meyer for spotting my boo-boo.

* Enable network tests when hunting for leaks
* Disable curses and audio tests properly when running -u all

are copied up to docs.python.org/dev

Needs lots more work.  Feel free to add code, fixes, or FIXME comments.