[Distutils] Making a tar.gz source distribution

[Tres Seaver]

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Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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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.
> 
> That's historical and not true anymore. -> the current trunk uses tarfile, etc.

I didn't know that you had fixed it on the trunk. AFAIK, it is still
true that  every released version of Python has this bug.



Tres.
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