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Added note about new distutils commands.

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Marc-André Lemburg 2002-04-17 20:33:40 +00:00
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@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ Extension modules
Library
- New distutils commands for building packagers were added to
support pkgtool on Solaris and swinstall on HP-UX.
- distutils now has a new abstract binary packager base class
command/bdist_packager, which simplifies writing packagers.
This will hopefully provide the missing bits to encourage
people to submit more packagers, e.g. for Debian, FreeBSD
and other systems.
- The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError
for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just
produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is