On 28 June 2000, Harry Henry Gebel said:

I have put a few patches up on the SourceForge patch manager.

Cool! This is slightly more awkward than email, but the tracking/accountability is nice.

The first patch prunes CVS files and directories from source distributions. (Making a source distribution of the Distutils was failing because it kept putting 'misc/CVS' into MANIFEST. Of course, this wouldn't effect somebody who wasn't using the CVS Distutils.)

Oops. There were actually several other bugs lurking in that module, and I fixed the CVS problem in a nicer way. So don't feel bad that I rejected your patch. ;-) See the checkin message for details. Thanks for prodding me into finding those other, long-hidden bugs!

The second patch fixes a problem that you could not build source distributions for packages that use the old-style way of specifying extensions.

Also fixed in a different (shorter and more general) way. Thanks for spotting the bug!

The third patch is for the examples directory. It updates the pil and xml setup scripts to use new-style extensions and fixes a bug in the mxDateTime setup script (which uses new-style extensions but did not import the Extension class.)

Great, checked it in verbatim.

Thanks!

Greg