-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote: > 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.
I didn't know that you had fixed it on the trunk. AFAIK, it is still true that every released version of Python has this bug. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksBlTIACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6HOwCgxLJipF2/U18b2drfLL5EJx5E pMIAnjAqCiKjwxszHDQmhJHHKj4ww0bc =jhvI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
