17 May
2009
17 May
'09
5 p.m.
But, there's an option in Distutils.make_archive to create a tarball using the "compress" [1] program rather than gzip or bzip2. Using tar -Z, it will pipe it to the compress program if present. This program implements the LZW algorithm [2].
As everybody else says: it might be best to just remove that option. For compatibility, perhaps deprecate it in 2.7 and 3.1, and remove in in 3.2. Regards, Martin