[Distutils] setup.py sdist hangs on windows with 1.6 and 2.0b1

This may not be directly related to distutils, it may also be a bug in 1.6 and 2.0b1 re implementation. 'setup.py sdist' with the current distutils CVS version hangs while parsing MANIFEST.in, executing the re.sub command in these lines in text_file.py: # collapse internal whitespace (*after* joining lines!) if self.collapse_ws: line = re.sub (r'(\S)\s+(\S)', r'\1 \2', line) Has anyone else noticed this, or is smething wrong on my side? Thomas