[issue19544] Port distutils as found in Python 2.7 to Python 3.x.

[Jason R. Coombs]

Jason R. Coombs added the comment:

After spending several hours spelunking, we identified what we believe are the tickets that were backed out in the aforementioned reversion.

issue1180
issue6516
issue7457
issue6466
issue6286

Additionally, issue6377 (renaming .compiler to .compiler_obj) was reverted, but it likely should not be re-applied.

Attached is an export of the etherpad (http://beta.etherpad.org/p/python_2.7_distutil_commits) which we used to keep track of the changes and show our work.

We will flag the above tickets and address each individually.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32569/python_2.7_distutil_commits.html

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