See SF #848614: distutils' msvccompiler now tries to detect that MSVC6
is installed but the registry settings are incomplete because the gui
has never been run.
Already backported to release23-maint.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c523e65..8097a03 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@
Library
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+- Bug #848614: distutils' msvccompiler fails to find the MSVC6
+ compiler because of incomplete registry entries.
+
- httplib.HTTP.putrequest now offers to omit the implicit Accept-Encoding.
- Patch #841977: modulefinder didn't find extension modules in packages