On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Tres Seaver
That's historical and not true anymore. -> the current trunk uses tarfile, etc.
I didn't know that you had fixed it on the trunk. AFAIK, it is still true that every released version of Python has this bug.
Well, it's not a bug. It's an enhancement. Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 work as advertised: http://docs.python.org/distutils/sourcedist.html "...requires external utilities: tar and possibly one of gzip, bzip2, or compress..." That's why it wasn't backported to the 2.6 series. Now there's no more need for such external programs: http://docs.python.org/2.7/distutils/sourcedist.html (except the "compress" program but this compression format will be abandoned and comes with a deprecation warning in 2.7) Tarek