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  r71413 | tarek.ziade | 2009-04-09 23:36:44 +0200 (Thu, 09 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows platforms
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+- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows 
+  platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
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 - Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
   Initial fix by Wayne Davison.