[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-719300 ] pimp needs to do download and untar itself

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Bugs item #719300, was opened at 2003-04-10 23:35
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Category: Macintosh
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 6
Submitted By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Assigned to: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Summary: pimp needs to do download and untar itself

Initial Comment:
Pimp currently uses the OSX programs curl and tar to download distributions and unpack them. There is absolutely no reason not to use the urllib and tarfile modules for this.

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>Comment By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Date: 2003-04-14 16:47

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There is actually a very good reason to use at least the tarfile module: if we 
use that in stead of unix tar we can fiddle pathnames while we unpack. 
Thereby we can do per-user installs of packages even if the tarfile was 
created for a system-wide installation. (That is, once the details of where 
per-user packages are going to be stored have been worked out).

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