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+- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
+  Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
+
 - Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
 
 - Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using