[Distutils] Making a tar.gz source distribution

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Mon Nov 16 17:32:05 CET 2009


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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?

I consider it a bug that the distutils.archive_utils module wants to
spawn an external program to make a tarball / zipfile, rather than using
the perfectly good stdlib modules.


Tres.
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