[Distutils] PEP 241 checked in, and 1.5.2 compatibility

[Thomas Heller]

> Also, I backed out the conversion to string methods that was performed
> on some of the files, so the CVS tree should work with Python 1.5.2
> again.  If you're still using 1.5.2, please let me know if you run
> into problems. 

I built distutils as well as py2exe (which also contains extension modules)
itself using python 1.5.2.

No problems at all. (Except the old problem that the resulting zip-file from
'sdist --formats=zip' is unusable because it contains filenames relative to
the root directory)

PKG-INFO: Author, Author-email are set to UNKNOWN, IMO they should not.
  Platform is set to UNKNOWN, is this correct?

Thomas