[Distutils] small improvement of the script functionality under win32

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Vivian De Smedt wrote:
> Distutils have a script functionality that copy the corresponding file
> into a common script folder (that could be on the path) and sligthly
> modify the first line of the script to reflect the path of the python
> executable.
> It is very nice but for the window platform I think it could be improved.
> 
> First the extention of the script could be .cmd such that they will be
> accessible as commands as soon as the script folder is in the path.
> 
> Second the first line adaptation could be slightly different and take
> advantage of the -x option of the python executable
> 
> #!python foo bar
> 
> could become:
> 
> @C:\Python24\python.exe -x "%~f0" foo bar  & exit /b
> 
> instead of:
> 
> #!C:\Python24\python.exe -x "%~f0"  foo bar & exit /b

Sounds like a good idea. The only thing I don't understand is
why you'd want to use ".cmd" instead of the more common ".bat".

> Follows a proposition of modification of the copy_scripts function of
> the build_scripts.py that reflect these changes

Please submit this as patch on SourceForge (http://python.sf.net).

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