Trent Mick <[email protected]> writes: > > The reverse is true on Unix. The tar-and-gzip format is extensively > > used so it is pretty much guaranteed to be readable on any Unix > > system; the Zip format does not have anywhere near the same level of > > guarantee. > > On what modern Linux and Mac OSes is "/usr/bin/unzip" not installed by > default?
You ask as though there were a single default for such systems. For GNU and BSD, at least, there is no such thing. To answer the question you may have instead been wanting answered: Any Unix-like system where “get a minimal installation first and then I'll install just what's needed to support the task this machine should perform” will not have an ‘unzip’ utility except by mere chance coincidence with the desired task. It's certainly not a valid assumption that “I want to set up this machine for a purpose that needs Python packages” and “I want the ability to read Zip format files” will necessarily co-incide. On the other hand, it *is* a valid assumption that any such system will have the ability to read tar-and-gzip archives. -- \ “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to | `\ another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’” —C.S. | _o__) Lewis | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
