[Distutils] Making a tar.gz source distribution

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM, ssteinerX at gmail.com
<ssteinerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Ram Rachum wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to make a tar.gz source distribution. I saw in the docs that a
>> tar
>> program is needed. I am on Windows. Where do I get one?
>
> You've got to be joking.
>
> Try Google.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=windows+tar+program&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Notice that the upcoming version does not rely on externals program
anymore, and will use
the stdlib  module to work with the tar engine.

Regards