[Distutils] [distribute] distribute_setup.py fails on Linux

[Arve Knudsen]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi Tarek
> >> > Nevermind, there was a problem with the Python installation so that it
> >> > didn't support zlib. Reinstalling Python fixed it :) Sorry for
> bothering
> >> > you. It might be an idea to embellish distribute_setup.py though, so
> >> > that it
> >> > detects that Python can't untar the gzipped archive (due to missing
> zlib
> >> > support). That would've saved us some confusion at least :)
> >> > Arve
> >>
> >> Oh.. mmm I think this should even be addressed in tarfile if possible:
> >> if tarfile encounters a zipped archive, and zlib is not installed, it
> >> should not return a cryptic
> >>
> >> tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
> >>
> >> But an error like
> >>
> >> tarfile.ReadError: archive not supported (zlib not installed)
> >
> > Of course, tarfile *should* address this.
> >
> >>
> >> And well, searching for this error in bugs.python.org, it looks like
> >> it will be addressed soon: http://bugs.python.org/issue8978
> >
> > Nice surprise :) However, it'll only help with fixed versions of Python,
> no?
> > I figure distribute aims to support older Pythons as well.
>
> Sure,  we simply make sure zlib is installed there since Distribute is
> always a targz
>
> Patches are welcome :D


I'll consider it :)

Arve
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