Re: [Distutils] [distribute] distribute_setup.py fails on Linux

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Arve Knudsen wrote:

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Hi Tarek Nevermind, there was a problem with the Python installation so that it didn't support zlib. Reinstalling Python fixed it :) Sorry for bothering you. It might be an idea to embellish distribute_setup.py though, so that it detects that Python can't untar the gzipped archive (due to missing zlib support). That would've saved us some confusion at least :) Arve

Oh.. mmm I think this should even be addressed in tarfile if possible: if tarfile encounters a zipped archive, and zlib is not installed, it should not return a cryptic

tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully

But an error like

tarfile.ReadError: archive not supported (zlib not installed)

Of course, tarfile *should* address this.

And well, searching for this error in bugs.python.org, it looks like it will be addressed soon: http://bugs.python.org/issue8978

Nice surprise :) However, it'll only help with fixed versions of Python, no? I figure distribute aims to support older Pythons as well. Arve