On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For instance, "dir_util" and "file_util" (old modules from the Python 1.x era) are going away in favor of calls to shutil (and os), so the Distutils package gets lighter.
Another module I would like to move away from Distutils is "archive_util". It contains helpers to build archives, whether they are zip or tar files. I propose to move those useful functions into shutil, as this seems the most logical place.
If it's archive-agnostic then shutil is probably the best place.
In more details: It allows the creation of gzip, bzip2, tar and zip files through a single API. There's a registry of supported formats and the API is driven by a format identifier. To do the work it uses stdlib's compression modules. Although it tries the "zip" system command as a fallback if the "zipfile" module is not present. (notice that I've removed the support of "compress" (.Z) some time ago) Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org