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  r69609 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-14 15:10:23 +0100 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fix for #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use a temporary directory.
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+- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use 
+  support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
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 - Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
   Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.