[Distutils] PATCH: Expanded tarball abilites
Greg Ward
gward@ase.com
Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:51:32 -0400
On 24 April 2000, Harry Henry Gebel said:
> The patch was a washout, it didn't save any time and made the code harder to
> understand. I liked it at two in the morning, but after looking at it when
> I was wide awake I think the current way is better.
Okee-dokey. If anyone's interested, it would still be mildly
interesting and useful to detect GNU tar and use the -z option, and to
detect GNU tar >= 1.13 and use the "base directory" option. Not
essential, but it's one of those things that makes the Distutils look
smarter, so I like it. ;-)
Greg
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