[Distutils] Possible Distutils shell processing bug

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Brian Quinlan wrote:
> 
> Michael wrote:
> > Hmm.  What happens in this instance on Windows?  We should probably
> > try to make the behaviour consistent.
> >
> > But quoting in sh is a quick way to insanity.
> 
> cmd.exe and sh do the same thing: they collect quoted arguments into one
> command argument and remove the quotes. So the solution seems pretty
> simple: just replace all instances of " with \"

I suppose we should add an API for shell quoting to util.py... 
provided we can come up with a sane standard for quoting.

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