[Python-checkins] CVS: distutils/misc extract.c,1.6,1.7

[Thomas Heller]

From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org>
> > First part of fix for bug [#483982] Python 2.2b2 bdist_wininst crashes.
> > Thanks to Tarn Weisner Burton for finding this.
> 
> Do you think this is also what caused Paul Dubois' Numeric installers
> to crash?  Can you work with him to see that it indeed fixes his
> problem?

Yes, I think so, and yes, will do, but unfortunately not before tomorrow.
As the log message says, this is only the first part of the story.
You know: these children...

Thomas