R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: I do not believe it is true that zip is supported by all platforms out of the box. As far as I know Gentoo, for example, does not install unzip by default. For that matter, before windows XP one had to download a utility to unzip files on windows (and that utility handles tar files just fine). Since there are still a few pre-XP windows boxes out there, it is not even true to say that all Windows machines handle zip out of the box.
Personally I would very much dislike it if python source distributions were zipfiles by default. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6296> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
