Fixed #6438: distutils.cygwinccompiler.get_versions was trying to use a re string pattern on a bytes
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Library
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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.
+
- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
- Issue #6195: fixed doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from