[Python-Dev] freeze is broken in 2.x

[Eric]

Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com>:
> > I have fixed some obvious errors (use of the deprecated 'cmp' module;
> > use of regex) but I have encountered run-time errors that are beyond
> > my competence to fix.  From a cursory inspection of the code it looks
> > to me like the freeze tools need adaptation to the new
> > distutils-centric build process.
> 
> The last maintainers were me and Mark Hammond, but neither of us has
> time to look into this right now.  (At least I know I don't.)
> 
> What kind of errors do you encounter?

After cleaning up the bad imports, use of regex, etc, first thing I see
is an assertion failure in the module finder.
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