At 04:56 AM 1/16/2008 +0100, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: >I'm sorry, just one more question (hopefully). >I work from Windows and I'd like to generate a gzipped tar file (.tar.gz). >On documentation I see that: > >"It requires external utilities: tar and possibly one of gzip, bzip2, >or compress" > >I installed: >http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gtar.htm >...and: >http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm > >Since apparently there's no way to provide cmd line arguments to tell >distutils where to find gtar and gzip executables I created two .bat >files in the setup.py directory pointing to original utility >executables but after having run setup.py sdist the installation hangs >on when arrives to run the tar.exe utility. >Is there an easier way for doing what I want? >I know that maybe this is more a Windows issue than a distutils issue >but I find very uncomfortable the way distutils manage such things. > >PS - I've never used it but by reading the documentation it seems that >the tarfile module would be able to read and write those kind of >archives. If that is true it would be much easier using that instead >of relying on third party packages like those ones I've tried.
Unfortunately the distutils.archive_util module was written before tarfile was available. You should only need to have the "tar" and "gzip" executables in a directory on your PATH in order to have them work, though. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
