> On Sep 4, 2018, at 6:06 AM, Alex Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> wrote:
>
> Since zlib is a dependency of python, the assumption has to be that it is
> already present.
It is technically an optional dependency of Python, though I don’t think you
can install wheels without zlib present since wheels are zip files and
generally include compression. Although maybe it could work in niche scenarios
if someone built wheels using ZIP_STORED instead of ZIP_DEFLATE?
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