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 Distutils Enhancements
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+XXX all of this work has been moved to Distutils2
+XXX Not sure what we should say here
+
 Distutils is being more actively developed, thanks to Tarek Ziadé
 who has taken over maintenance of the package, so there are a number
 of fixes and improvements.