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 Library
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+- Bug #1257728: Mention Cygwin in distutils error message about a missing
+  VS 2003.
+
 - Patch #1519566: Update turtle demo, make begin_fill idempotent.
 
 - Bug #1508010: msvccompiler now requires the DISTUTILS_USE_SDK