[merge] add 'make dist' and related things, and documentation to use them

[Martin Pool]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>  Err, you're right, my bad. Sorry, I'm wrong. print(1) works even in 2.4.
>
>  But please, don't encourage people to use print and sys.stdout
>  instead of self.outf. Please.

Yes, you're quite right, I've fixed it in my landing and I thank you
for catching it.

Aside from the other effects of outf, there is a trap that while

  print 1
  print(1)

are equivalent

  print 1, 2
  print(1, 2)

are not!

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>