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  r73975 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-12 10:27:26 +0200 (Sun, 12 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #6438: distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions was trying to use a re string pattern on a bytes
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+- Issue #6438: Fixed distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions : the regular
+  expression string pattern was trying to match against a bytes returned by 
+  Popen. Tested under win32 to build the py-postgresql project.
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 - Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
 
 - Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from