[Distutils] distutils + CVS Python prob. -- or is my installation broken?

[Tim Peters]

[Jack Jansen]
> I think this is the result of a recent checkin that replaced "2.2+" with
> "2.3a0" in the version string.

Yes:  yell at me if I screwed someone here!

> But: that fix was especially done for distutils, if I remember the
> checkin message corretly...

Well, it was especially done for me <wink>, because it was impossible to use
distutils to build concurrent 2.2 and 2.3 versions so long as CVS Python
still had a version string starting with "2.2".

BTW, distutils should define and use a common utility function to find the
Python version, instead of slicing a hard-coded three characters off of
sys.version in multiple places.