This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox shared folders.

Patch by Claudiu Popa.

Fix closes Issue11439 Remove the SVN keywords from the code as it is no longer applicable in hg. Patch Contributed by Neil Muller.

This was done in r80805 (#7908) and erroneously brought back by the
distutils revert.  This commit removes more code than the original,
which was uncomplete.  There is no NEWS entry, like in r80805.

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  r86223 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:51:56 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Always close files in distutils code and tests (#10252).
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  r86224 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:58:34 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Add missing entry for r86223.
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  r86226 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:59:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Of course, I forgot one file in r86223.
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  r86234 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 03:10:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Also close file descriptors from os.popen and subprocess.Popen
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  r86223 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:51:56 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Always close files in distutils code and tests (#10252).
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  r86224 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:58:34 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Add missing entry for r86223.
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  r86226 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:59:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Of course, I forgot one file in r86223.
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  r86234 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 03:10:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Also close file descriptors from os.popen and subprocess.Popen
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reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.

Fix for issue #7908

to "sys.platform == 'mac'" and that is
dead code because it refers to a platform
that is no longer supported (and hasn't been
supported for several releases).

Fixes issue #7908 for the trunk.

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  r73814 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-03 21:01:12 +0200 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  basic tests to raise distutils.file_util coverage
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  r73815 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-03 21:14:49 +0200 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  cleaned distutils.file_util
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  r69332 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-06 01:49:45 +0100 (Fri, 06 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  using >= so setting verbose to 2 will work as well
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  r69324 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-06 01:31:59 +0100 (Fri, 06 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #1276768: verbose option was not used in the code.
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(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

    suggested by PEP 291.

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.

  installations are present, by always unlinking the destination file
  before copying to it.  Without the unlink(), the copied file remains
  owned by its previous UID, causing the subsequent chmod() to fail.

Bugfix candidate, though it may cause changes on platforms where
  file ownership behaves differently.

do it back in copy_file() (not at module level).

this will please everyone (as if that's possible).

Standardize use of whitespace on function calls.

than a boolean indicating whether it did the copy.

destination path, otherwise show just the directory.

  - file_util.py: operations on single files
  - dir_util.py: operations on whole directories or directory trees
  - dep_util.py: simple timestamp-based dependency analysis
  - archive_util.py: creation of archive (tar, zip, ...) files
The functions left in util.py are miscellany that don't fit in any of the
new files.