[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-08-19 Thread Eysteinn Torfi Kristinsson
Changes by Eysteinn Torfi Kristinsson e...@internet.is: -- nosy: +eysispeisi ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5689 ___ ___

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-07-21 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- stage: - needs patch versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5689 ___

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-26 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: If the underlying library is LGPL, it would require us to distribute its sources along with the Windows binaries, which I'm not willing to do. Martin, this is wrong, you don't have to bundle the source *in* the object code package. Making it

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-26 Thread Matthias Klose
Matthias Klose d...@debian.org added the comment: Per, on 2010-03-17, I asked you via email: I was looking at http://bugs.python.org/issue5689 http://bugs.python.org/issue6715 and Martin's comments about the licensing of the bindings; is there a special reason for the lgpl3 license of

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-26 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Am 26.05.2010 10:51, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: Antoine Pitroupit...@free.fr added the comment: If the underlying library is LGPL, it would require us to distribute its sources along with the Windows binaries, which I'm not willing to do.

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-26 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
Per Øyvind Karlsen peroyv...@mandriva.org added the comment: if you're already looking at issue6715, then I don't get why you're asking.. ;) quoting from msg106433: For my code, feel free to use your own/any other license you'd like or even public domain (if the license of bz2module.c that

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-26 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: tsktsk, discussions about python module for xz compression should anyways be kept at issue6715 as this one is about the tarfile module ;p Ok, following up there. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-25 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
Per Øyvind Karlsen peroyv...@mandriva.org added the comment: I'm the author of the pyliblzma module, and if desired, I'd be happy to help out adapting pyliblzma for inclusion with python. Most of it's code is based on bz2module.c, so it shouldn't be very far away from being good 'nuff. What I

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-25 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
Per Øyvind Karlsen peroyv...@mandriva.org added the comment: ps: pylzma uses the LZMA SDK, which is not what you want. pyliblzma (not the same module;) OTOH uses liblzma, which is the library used by xz/lzma utils You'll find it available at http://launchpad.net/pyliblzma --

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-25 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: For other alternatives to the LGPL liblzma, you really don't have any, If that's really the case (which I don't believe it is), then this project stops right here. If the underlying library is LGPL, it would require us to distribute its

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-25 Thread Koen van de Sande
Koen van de Sande k...@tibed.net added the comment: The XZ Utils website ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) states the following: The most interesting parts of XZ Utils (e.g. liblzma) are in the public domain. You can do whatever you want with the public domain parts. Some parts of XZ Utils (e.g.

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-05-25 Thread Lars Gustäbel
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[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-02-05 Thread Éric Araujo
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[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-01-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
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[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2010-01-26 Thread Glenn Linderman
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[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-09-01 Thread itkach
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[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-08-13 Thread Nikolaus Rath
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[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-04-20 Thread Koen van de Sande
Koen van de Sande k...@tibed.net added the comment: The LZMA implementation from 7-zip has been released as public domain (since version 4.62 / Nov 2008) in the LZMA SDK: http://www.7-zip.org/ sdk.html So, there shouldn't be a license issue for Windows. I am not sure if there are already

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-04-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: The LZMA implementation from 7-zip has been released as public domain (since version 4.62 / Nov 2008) in the LZMA SDK: http://www.7-zip.org/ sdk.html That's good news. Now, if somebody could contribute a Python wrapper for these... So,

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-04-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: If we support LZMA, we should do so on all platforms; it kind of restricts usefulness to only have it on some. Maybe the LZMA code in one of the many archival tools in existence that supports it is not LGPL'd? -- nosy: +georg.brandl

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-04-04 Thread Matthias Klose
New submission from Matthias Klose d...@debian.org: GNU tar now supports lzma compression as a compression method. Please consider adding lzma support to the tarfile module (either by using the external lzma program or by adding a lzma extension to the standard library). lzma extension at

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-04-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: -- priority: - normal versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5689 ___

[issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

2009-04-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: As for an lzma module - I would prefer one that isn't LGPL'ed. Instead, it should link against a system-provide lzma library (which then might or might not licensed under lpgl). I would probably exclude the lzma module from Windows, as