On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ram Rachum wrote: >> I'm trying to make a tar.gz source distribution. I saw in the docs that a tar >> program is needed. I am on Windows. Where do I get one? > > I consider it a bug that the distutils.archive_utils module wants to > spawn an external program to make a tarball / zipfile, rather than using > the perfectly good stdlib modules.
That's historical and not true anymore. -> the current trunk uses tarfile, etc. Tarek. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
