'alias_options' table and getting rid of some hairy code in the
  Distribution constructor.
Resurrected the distribution options that describe the modules present
  in the module distribution ('py_modules', 'ext_modules'), and added
  a bunch more: 'packages', 'package_dir', 'ext_package', 'include_dirs',
  'install_path'.
Updated some comments.
Added 'warn()' method to Command.
'Command.get_command_name()' now stores generated command name in
  self.command_name.

Added global cache PATH_CREATED used by 'mkpath()' to ensure it doesn't
  try to create the same path more than once in a session (and, more
  importantly, to ensure that it doesn't print "creating X" more than
  once for each X per session!).

in dry-run mode.

  distributions their own directory (and .pth file).
Overhauled how we determine installation directories in
  'set_final_options()' to separate platform-dependence and take
  'install_path' option into account.
Added 'create_path_file()' to create path config file when 'install_path'
  given.
Only run 'install_py' and 'install_ext' when, respectively, there are
  some pure Python modules and some extension modules in the distribution.

have extension modules.

  - rename 'dir' to 'build_dir'
  - take 'package' from distribution option 'ext_package'
  - take 'extensions' from distribution option 'ext_modules'
  - take 'include_dirs' from distribution
Name keyword args explictly when calling CCompiler methods.
Overhauled how we generate extension filenames (in 'extension_filename()
  and 'build_extension()') to take 'package' option into account.

packages and searching for source files by 'package_dir'.

        parser_ast2tuple().  Create an temporary empty dictionary to
        use.  Bug reported by Mark Favas <m.favas@per.dem.csiro.au>.

Fix a couple of comments.

and then (under certain circumstances) can clobber the default!
He also submitted this patch as PR#82.

Gertzfield <che@debian.org> (with minor changes).

(Should have been here instead of in the branch in the first place,
since these weren't in for the 1.5.2 release.)

For a long time I've seen absurd tracebacks under -O (e.g., negative
line numbers), but very rarely.  Since I was looking at tracebacks
anyway, thought I'd track it down.  Turns out to be Guido's only
predictable blind spot <wink -- "char" is signed on some non-GvR
systems>.  Patch follows.

It breaks Mailman, it was actually documented in the docstring, so it
was an intentional deviation from the usual del semantics.  Let's
document the original behavior in Doc/lib/librfc822.tex.

the right variant of gethostbyname_r for us, since not all Linuxes are
equal in this respect.  Reported by Laurent Pointal.

(2) On BeOS, Chris Herborth reports that instead of arpa/inet.h you
must include net/netdb.h to get the inet_ntoa() and inet_addr()
prototypes.

module functions, to clarify that the import is not automatic.
Suggested by Koray Oner <Koray.Oner@Eng.Sun.COM>.

so that pure Python modules are installed to the platform-specific
directory if there are any extension modules in this distribution.

  specific files; it was somewhat broken, and the comments were dead
  wrong.
Now runs 'install_ext' command after 'install_py'.

actual extension module to.

Default platform-specific build directory changed to 'build/platlib'.

it doesn't recognize a lone dash as a non-flag argument.
Now it does.

Changed those two methods to only compile/link if necessary (according
  to simplistic timestamp checks).
Added 'output_dir' to 'object_filenames()' and 'shared_object_filename()'.

Terminology change in 'newer()'.
Made 'copy_tree' respect dry_run flag a little better.
Added 'move_file()'.

  signatures, and updated some docstrings to reflect it.
Some comments added.
Added 'announce()' and 'move_file()' methods.

Error message tweak in Command.set_option().
Added Command.get_peer_option().
Added Command.move_file() wrapper.

        raise KeyError instead of failing silently!

much breakage (esp. in JPython which holds absolute path names in
co_filename already).  This implementation uses os.path.abspath() as a
slightly better way to canonicalize path names.  It implements a
cache.

the file that a function is defined on.  Non-portable to Windows and
JPython.  Instead, new find_function() uses re module on a similar
(simple-minded) pattern.

the proper function to call is inet_addr().  Since we already had code
to do that (for MS-Windows), this simplifies things a lot!