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  r73490 | tarek.ziade | 2009-06-20 15:57:20 +0200 (Sat, 20 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #6164 AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler
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+- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils 
+  unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
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 - Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
   httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.