Remove 'created by' lines; people can use CVS for this, and the information is often out of date

34 files changed, 1 insertions, 72 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py b/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
index 47fac0c..98c1e55 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Utility functions for creating archive files (tarballs, zip files,
 that sort of thing)."""
 
-# created 2000/04/03, Greg Ward (extracted from util.py)
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
index 8aca058..3084947 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Contains CCompiler, an abstract base class that defines the interface
 for the Distutils compiler abstraction model."""
 
-# created 1999/07/05, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
index 6a26818..b35eb07 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ Provides the Command class, the base class for the command classes
 in the distutils.command package.
 """
 
-# created 2000/04/03, Greg Ward
-# (extricated from core.py; actually dates back to the beginning)
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py
index 454c9df..e0648f3 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Implements the Distutils 'bdist' command (create a built [binary]
 distribution)."""
 
-# created 2000/03/29, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py
index 712fec8..7562b70 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Implements the Distutils 'bdist_dumb' command (create a "dumb" built
 distribution -- i.e., just an archive to be unpacked under $prefix or
 $exec_prefix)."""
 
-# created 2000/03/29, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
index 88be5e8..a7bc45f 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Implements the Distutils 'bdist_rpm' command (create RPM source and binary
 distributions)."""
 
-# created 2000/04/25, by Harry Henry Gebel
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
index dcc390e..c5cfd6d 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Implements the Distutils 'bdist_wininst' command: create a windows installer
 exe-program."""
 
-# created 2000/06/02, Thomas Heller
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build.py
index 6bc92a4..0643948 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 Implements the Distutils 'build' command."""
 
-# created 1999/03/08, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py
index f0207e4..fe921fb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ Implements the Distutils 'build_clib' command, to build a C/C++ library
 that is included in the module distribution and needed by an extension
 module."""
 
-# created (an empty husk) 1999/12/18, Greg Ward
-# fleshed out 2000/02/03-04
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
index 250e539..0b3ef14 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Implements the Distutils 'build_ext' command, for building extension
 modules (currently limited to C extensions, should accommodate C++
 extensions ASAP)."""
 
-# created 1999/08/09, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_py.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_py.py
index 0ab72c0..f61dc17 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_py.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_py.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 Implements the Distutils 'build_py' command."""
 
-# created 1999/03/08, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, string, os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py
index 211ade4..e4d6099 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 Implements the Distutils 'build_scripts' command."""
 
-# created 2000/05/23, Bastian Kleineidam
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/config.py b/Lib/distutils/command/config.py
index 9ebe0d9..abfa138 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/config.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/config.py
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ configure-like tasks: "try to compile this C code", or "figure out where
 this header file lives".
 """
 
-# created 2000/05/29, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
index 67f3789..9adda46 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Implements the Distutils 'install' command."""
 
 from distutils import log
 
-# created 1999/03/13, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install_headers.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install_headers.py
index 495d150..957ed23 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install_headers.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install_headers.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Implements the Distutils 'install_headers' command, to install C/C++ header
 files to the Python include directory."""
 
-# created 2000/05/26, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py
index 1e771c6..5da1c7a 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# created 1999/03/13, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
index 082aa88..91807e6 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 Implements the Distutils 'sdist' command (create a source distribution)."""
 
-# created 1999/09/22, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/core.py b/Lib/distutils/core.py
index 5196145..5be9e4e 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/core.py
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ indirectly provides the Distribution and Command classes, although they are
 really defined in distutils.dist and distutils.cmd.
 """
 
-# created 1999/03/01, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py
index a046ee2..93f8803 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ cygwin in no-cygwin mode).
 #     in the dlls.
 #   *** only the version of June 2000 shows these problems
 
-# created 2000/05/05, Rene Liebscher
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os,sys,copy
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py
index bbb6d23..f496654 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Utility functions for simple, timestamp-based dependency of files
 and groups of files; also, function based entirely on such
 timestamp dependency analysis."""
 
-# created 2000/04/03, Greg Ward (extracted from util.py)
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index 8b3e06b..d407e9a 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 Utility functions for manipulating directories and directory trees."""
 
-# created 2000/04/03, Greg Ward (extracted from util.py)
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index dbeeb8b..3a69069 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ Provides the Distribution class, which represents the module distribution
 being built/installed/distributed.
 """
 
-# created 2000/04/03, Greg Ward
-# (extricated from core.py; actually dates back to the beginning)
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
index 624c0fe..76bdbae 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ handles the EMX port of the GNU C compiler to OS/2.
 #
 # * EMX gcc 2.81/EMX 0.9d fix03
 
-# created 2001/5/7, Andrew MacIntyre, from Rene Liebscher's cywinccompiler.py
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os,sys,copy
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/extension.py b/Lib/distutils/extension.py
index 9dc316a..5b197fa 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/extension.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/extension.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Provides the Extension class, used to describe C/C++ extension
 modules in setup scripts."""
 
-# created 2000/05/30, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
index 5de64e1..f78b0a6 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ additional features:
   * options set attributes of a passed-in object
 """
 
-# created 1999/03/03, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, string, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
index 56b1fae..c2fa086 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Utility functions for operating on single files.
 """
 
-# created 2000/04/03, Greg Ward (extracted from util.py)
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/filelist.py b/Lib/distutils/filelist.py
index b4f3269..4b5d47d 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/filelist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/filelist.py
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ Provides the FileList class, used for poking about the filesystem
 and building lists of files.
 """
 
-# created 2000/07/17, Rene Liebscher (as template.py)
-# most parts taken from commands/sdist.py
-# renamed 2000/07/29 (to filelist.py) and officially added to
-#  the Distutils source, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os, string, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index a2459ad..c2bd77d 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contains MSVCCompiler, an implementation of the abstract CCompiler class
 for the Microsoft Visual Studio."""
 
 
-# created 1999/08/19, Perry Stoll
+# Written by Perry Stoll
 # hacked by Robin Becker and Thomas Heller to do a better job of
 #   finding DevStudio (through the registry)
 
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/spawn.py b/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
index 4df6e09..f94817d 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ Also provides the 'find_executable()' to search the path for a given
 executable name.
 """
 
-# created 1999/07/24, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index b12b98d..aa3636f 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ available.
 
 Written by:   Fred L. Drake, Jr.
 Email:        <fdrake@acm.org>
-Initial date: 17-Dec-1998
 """
 
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/text_file.py b/Lib/distutils/text_file.py
index 7086b1a..67efd65 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/text_file.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/text_file.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ provides the TextFile class, which gives an interface to text files
 that (optionally) takes care of stripping comments, ignoring blank
 lines, and joining lines with backslashes."""
 
-# created 1999/01/12, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 from types import *
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index 2f4546e..603dfe9 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ the "typical" Unix-style command-line C compiler:
   * link shared library handled by 'cc -shared'
 """
 
-# created 1999/07/05, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os, sys
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 8d22415..9de6077 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Miscellaneous utility functions -- anything that doesn't fit into
 one of the other *util.py modules.
 """
 
-# created 1999/03/08, Greg Ward
-
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, string, re
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/version.py b/Lib/distutils/version.py
index 02502da..71a5614 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/version.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/version.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 # Implements multiple version numbering conventions for the
 # Python Module Distribution Utilities.
 #
-# written by Greg Ward, 1998/12/17
-#
 # $Id$
 #