[Distutils] sdist default archive format

Trent Mick trentm at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 06:59:25 CEST 2009


> There's nothing bad about tar... as long as symlinks stay well out of
> them....

Tar on solaris is often broken by design. :) For compat reasons
Solaris' default 'tar' is one that has file length problems
(http://www.mikehan.com/rant/solaris-tools.html).

Trent

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