[Distutils] pypi and easy_install

[Giampaolo Rodola']

Ok, I tried to implement this and it is seems I made it.
The change permit to use the distutils "--formats=tar,gztar,bztar"
option without need of having tar/gzip/bzip2 utilities installed on
the system.
Don't know if distutils test suite includes tests for the part of code
I modified but Lib/test/test_distutils.py run successfully on Python
2.5.1.

The only compression format currently left out is ztar.
I may be wrong but I haven't seen modules able to work with that
format in the Python stdlib.

I'll wait for your review.
Tell me if you want me to open a ticket on the Python bug tracker to
let also other users review the patch, modify something or throw the
whole thing away. :-)

Giampaolo

2008/1/17, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
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