On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:34:00PM -0500, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
>I'm going through the archives and I see that this came up before in a Mac
>context and os.curdir was suggested since '.' failed on the Mac. Just FYI.
>
>http://mail.mems-exchange.org/pipermail/quixote-users/2001-June/000044.html

In that post, Greg speculates that the Distutils uses '' as a synonym
for the current directory.  Looking at the Distutils code, I don't
think this is actually the case, so I'll check in the change to use
os.curdir.

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