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-Merged with distutils@d7ffdb9c7 including: Support for Pathlike objects in data files and extensions (pypa/distutils#272, pypa/distutils#237), native support for C++ compilers (pypa/distuils#228) and removed unused get_msvcr() (pypa/distutils#274).
+Merged with pypa/distutils@b7ee725f3 including: Support for Pathlike objects in data files and extensions (pypa/distutils#272, pypa/distutils#237), native support for C++ compilers (pypa/distuils#228) and removed unused get_msvcr() (pypa/distutils#274).