Florian Berger <fber...@florian-berger.de> added the comment: > Okay. Adding the easy keyword to lure contributors.
Thanks. > I wonder if there is something to fix at all; tar is a smart container > format whereas zip is simpler, so I would not be surprised if the > source of the difference is just that zip cannot contain links. In my mind, that is no excuse for inconsistent behaviour on part of the wrapper. If the *user* (i.e. package creator) had any choice of storing symlinks "as is" or the file linked, I would agree; but there is no option, no parameter, in fact not even a hint at the behaviour. On the contrary, the *wrapper* (i.e. distutils) does have a choice of derefering symlinks in a tar file or not. So, from my point of view: surprises == bad, options/parameters == good, transparent consitency == best. P.S. "Explicit is better than implicit" may also apply here. ;-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12585> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
