Merged revisions 76358 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

........
  r76358 | tarek.ziade | 2009-11-18 09:46:56 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler now uses a key that exists on any fresh windows install
........
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cc134d6..2e3dee3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
+  Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
+
 - Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
   TLS or SSL.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.