Adding Jack Jansen's version checking utility.

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diff --git a/Tools/versioncheck/checkversions.py b/Tools/versioncheck/checkversions.py
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+"""Checkversions - recursively search a directory (default: sys.prefix) 
+for _checkversion.py files, and run each of them. This will tell you of
+new versions available for any packages you have installed."""
+
+import os
+import getopt
+import sys
+import pyversioncheck
+
+CHECKNAME="_checkversion.py"
+
+VERBOSE=1
+
+USAGE="""Usage: checkversions [-v verboselevel] [dir ...]
+Recursively examine a tree (default: sys.prefix) and for each package
+with a _checkversion.py file compare the installed version against the current
+version.
+
+Values for verboselevel:
+0 - Minimal output, one line per package
+1 - Also print descriptions for outdated packages (default)
+2 - Print information on each URL checked
+3 - Check every URL for packages with multiple locations"""
+
+def check1dir(dummy, dir, files):
+	if CHECKNAME in files:
+		fullname = os.path.join(dir, CHECKNAME)
+		try:
+			execfile(fullname)
+		except:
+			print '** Exception in', fullname
+			
+def walk1tree(tree):
+	os.path.walk(tree, check1dir, None)
+	
+def main():
+	global VERBOSE
+	try:
+		options, arguments = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'v:')
+	except getopt.error:
+		print USAGE
+		sys.exit(1)
+	for o, a in options:
+		if o == '-v':
+			VERBOSE = string.atoi(a)
+	if not arguments:
+		arguments = [sys.prefix]
+	for dir in arguments:
+		walk1tree(dir)
+		
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	main()
+		
+