[Python-Dev] Including zlib...

[Guido van Rossum]

OK. As long a typical Unix build still links with whatever shared zlib
is present on the box I'm fine with this.

--Guido

On 1/3/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Guido]
> > Hear, hear.
>
> [Skip]
> >> Martin checked in zlib to the Python svn repository.  Are we really sure
> >> that including zlib is the only path to whatever it is that it achieves?  If
> >> security holes in zlib turn up (they have in the past), new Python releases
> >> will have to be released quickly.
>
> Martin & Thomas Heller proposed it here about two weeks ago:
>
>     http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058873.html
>
> It's pimarily for the benefit of py2exe on Windows.  AFAICT, he didn't
> change Python's treatment of zlib on non-Windows boxes; on Windows
> zlib is now compiled in to the core DLL.
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