[Distutils] pypi and easy_install

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:39 PM 1/16/2008 +0100, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
>2008/1/16, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> > At 03:48 PM 1/16/2008 +0100, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> > > > > Unfortunately the distutils.archive_util module was written before
> > > > > tarfile was available.
> > >
> > >Are there chances to see this implemented?
> >
> > Are you volunteering?  :)  If so, then perhaps you can get a patch in
> > for Python 2.6.
>
>Uhm... why not? :-)
>If someone could give me some pointers on nailing down the issue I
>could give it a try (note: never seen distutils internals before).

See the distutils.archive_util module - the disutils uses that for 
all its archive creation.


>My only concern is that it's not rare that patches provided by users
>are often ignored and they remains stagnant on the Python bug tracker.
>I just wouldn't spend time on that for nothing.

Well, I can review the patch and commit it, if I like it.  :)