Blocked revisions 78666-78667 via svnmerge

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  r78666 | tarek.ziade | 2010-03-05 01:16:02 +0100 (Fri, 05 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  reverting partially distutils to its 2.6.x state so 2.7a4 looks more like the 2.7b1 in this. the whole revert will occur after a4 is tagged
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  r78667 | tarek.ziade | 2010-03-05 01:29:38 +0100 (Fri, 05 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  reverted the usage of compiler_obj in Python's setup.py
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