[issue6296] Native (and default) tarfile support for setup.py sdist in distutils on Windows

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

Now that distutils uses tarfile (see #6048) we can propose a tar archive
on all platform by default without requiring "tar" to be installed.

Althoug, the gz compression requires the zlib module. I need to check
what are the requirements of its installation in the sdtlib.

For the MANIFEST file, do you mean the file generated by MANIFEST.in ?

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