[issue47090] Make zlib required on all platforms (simplifies code)

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Bringing this up on discord, others point out that the windows build requires zlib for convenience when we transitioned from having a vendored copy in our repo and that smaller "embedded" use cases may not like this if they don't already need the dep. But

[issue47090] Make zlib required on all platforms (simplifies code)

Change by Gregory P. Smith : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +30133 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/32043 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue47090] Make zlib required on all platforms (simplifies code)

New submission from Gregory P. Smith : We have a pile of conditionals and extra code in CPython to deal with building on systems that do not have zlib. The zlib C library has been around forever at this point and should be present on every system in the world. zlib is already required on Win