[Distutils] PEP 241 checked in, and 1.5.2 compatibility

[Thomas Heller]

I wrote:
> >[...] (Except the old problem that the resulting zip-file from
> >'sdist --formats=zip' is unusable because it contains filenames relative to
> >the root directory)
> 
Sorry, it's not the sdist but the bdist command, which is probably not
used very much since we have these nice ;-) rpm and wininst formats
for binary distributions.

> I'll look into it.  I can't recall hearing about this bug before; is
> it in the SF bug tracker?

I don't think so. I argued about this issue with Greg a long time ago,
maybe we misunderstood each other.
IIRC, this may make sense on linux, but not on windows.

Thomas