[Distutils] pypi and easy_install

[Giampaolo Rodola']

2008/1/16, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> 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.  :)

Ok. I should find some time for trying to work on this this week.
I'll keep you updated.

Thanks.