Release 0.1.5 (6 April, 2000):
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* handle spaces in directory names under Windows
* don't blow up with extravagant tracebacks for errors that
  really aren't the Distutils' fault


Release 0.1.4 (4 April, 2000):
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* backwards compatibility with Python 1.5.1


Release 0.1.3 (30 January, 2000):
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* "dist" command works on Windows now
* better error handling in a few places
* fixed some bugs in the MSVC++ interface class
* "install_py" and "install_ext" commands now run their corresponding
  build commands, in case they are invoked standalone by the user
* added the "--help-commands" option to get a list of all commands
* renamed the text files to README.txt, USAGE.txt, and CHANGES.txt
  (for convenience to Windows users)
* started adding code to allow building static C libraries and standalone
  executables (not used yet)


Release 0.1.2 (15 December, 1999)
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* changes to command-line semantics:
  - verbose mode is now the default
  - added help options (and generation of help text), both globally and
    for each command
  - better usage message
* anywhere that accepts/requires a list of strings now also accepts
  a tuple of strings (but lists of tuples still have to be lists --
  there are limits)
* fixes to "build_py" command
  - explicitly ensure that the setup script (sys.argv[0]) is never
    included with the modules to be installed
  - do *not* preserve file mode when copying .py files into the
    build tree (was preserving 0444 permissions [read-only], which
    caused subsequent installation of the same module distribution
    to fail)
  - several silly bugs that showed up when building simple,
    non-packagized distributions
* fixes to the "dist" command
  - correct behaviour with filename pattern regexes
  - don't blow up if MANIFEST missing, just warn and carry on
  - blow away "distribution" tree after making archive file(s)


Release 0.1.1 (23 October, 1999)
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* fixed 'mkpath()' function so it should work under DOS/Windows
* changes to how we link C code:
  - under Unix, object files precede -l options on link command line
  - libraries now can have a directory component, which forces
    the library to be searched for in only that directory
* added --force and --quiet global options
* made global options (--verbose, --dry-run, and now --force and
  --quiet too) valid at each command as well as for the whole
  distribution
* 'dist' command now works on Unices other than Linux; generates
  tar, tar.Z, tar.gz, and ZIP files.  Still Unix-dependent though.


Release 0.1 (29 October, 1999)
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* initial public release


$Id: CHANGES.txt,v 1.5.2.3 2000/04/06 19:32:30 gward Exp $
