[Distutils] New Distutils snapshot

[Andrew Kuchling]

I've made a snapshot release of the Distutils, distutils-20021119,
that will become a 1.0.3 release.  The code is the same as that in
Python 2.2.2, with none of the recent bugfixes; this is being done for
the sake of completeness, and as a test run for the 1.0.4 release
(which should run in parallel with the release of Python 2.3).

Anyway, it would be very helpful if you grab a copy of the snapshot
from http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/download/ and take a
look at it, and maybe try installing it.  I don't expect there to be
serious problems with the Distutils code itself (it *is* the same as
2.2.2, after all) but there are still shortcomings in the accompanying
documentation and examples.

Known problems that I'd like to fix for 1.0.4:

    * the examples (PyXML, PIL) are for old versions of their
respective packages.

    * the test suite (not included in the snapshot, but available from
CVS) is seriously broken.
    
    * fix the bdist_dumb relative path problem

Please point out any other issues, or, if you have CVS access, go
ahead and fix them.

--amk                                                             (www.amk.ca)
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