[Mailman-Developers] current snapshot install...
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@zope.com
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:51:36 -0500
>>>>> "RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:
RJ> I'd imagine upwards of 90% of systems out there have gunzip.
RJ> Or maybe just use gzip -d. It would, however, add another
RJ> required component, and this one just for one itty bit of the
RJ> install. Honestly, since you're distributing everything as a
RJ> compressed tarball already, do really need to also compress
RJ> email? Just ship it as a straight tar, or, better yet, ship
RJ> it as an untarred tree...
It's handy because distutils creates the tarball for me. We don't
/have/ to do it this way, but it's the easiest thing, so until it's
proven broken...
RJ> Ah. I didn't study the actual makefile commands far enough to
RJ> notice that. I just the the "grumble grumble what in hell are
RJ> you doing barry grumble grumble" comment out the offending
RJ> part command... :-)
Ah c'mon now, I'd never lead /you/ astray, Ron. At least not until I
cash that $5000 check you sent me <wink>.
-Barry