Minor wording tweaks.

gward · gward · commit 1bbe32982d57 · 2000-06-25T03:14:13.000Z
Kludged the extra-wide table that summarizes the manifest template language
  (works with LaTeX, but is an *evil* kludge and could well break LaTeX2HTML
  or similar...).
diff --git a/Doc/dist/dist.tex b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ \subsection{General Python terminology}
   Typically contained in a single dynamically loadable pre-compiled
   file, e.g. a shared object (\file{.so}) file for CPython extensions on
   Unix, a DLL (given the \file{.pyd} extension) for CPython extensions
-  on Windows, or a Java class file for JPython extensions.
+  on Windows, or a Java class file for JPython extensions.  (Note that
+  currently, the Distutils only handles C/C++ extensions for CPython.)
 \item[package] a module that contains other modules; typically contained
   in a directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other
   directories by the presence of a file \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}.
@@ -217,8 +218,8 @@ \section{Writing the Setup Script}
 the Distutils, so that the various commands that operate on your modules
 do the right thing.  As we saw in section~\ref{simple-example} above,
 the setup script consists mainly of a call to \function{setup()}, and
-all information supplied to the Distutils is supplied as keyword
-arguments to \function{setup()}.
+most information supplied to the Distutils by the module developer is
+supplied as keyword arguments to \function{setup()}.
 
 Here's a slightly more involved example, which we'll follow for the next
 couple of sections: the Distutils' own setup script.  (Keep in mind that
@@ -718,10 +719,10 @@ \subsection{Creating a source distribution: the \protect\command{sdist} command}
   \lineii{recursive-exclude \var{dir} \var{pat1} \var{pat2} ...}
     {exclude all files under \var{dir} matching any of the listed patterns}
   \lineii{global-include \var{pat1} \var{pat2} ...}
-    {include all files anywhere in the source tree matching 
+    {include all files anywhere in the source tree matching\\&
      any of the listed patterns}
   \lineii{global-exclude \var{pat1} \var{pat2} ...}
-    {exclude all files anywhere in the source tree matching 
+    {exclude all files anywhere in the source tree matching\\&
      any of the listed patterns}
   \lineii{prune \var{dir}}{exclude all files under \var{dir}}
   \lineii{graft \var{dir}}{include all files under \var{dir}}
