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  r73864 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-06 14:50:46 +0200 (Mon, 06 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #6377: distutils compiler switch ignored (and added a deprecation warning if compiler is not used as supposed = a string option)
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+- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an 
+  attribute.
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 - Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
 
 - Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.