Ok then. I'll work on it as soon as possible and open a ticket on the bug tracker.
2008/1/19, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 04:44 AM 1/19/2008 +0100, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: > >Ok, I tried to implement this and it is seems I made it. > >The change permit to use the distutils "--formats=tar,gztar,bztar" > >option without need of having tar/gzip/bzip2 utilities installed on > >the system. > >Don't know if distutils test suite includes tests for the part of code > >I modified but Lib/test/test_distutils.py run successfully on Python > >2.5.1. > > > >The only compression format currently left out is ztar. > >I may be wrong but I haven't seen modules able to work with that > >format in the Python stdlib. > > > >I'll wait for your review. > >Tell me if you want me to open a ticket on the Python bug tracker to > >let also other users review the patch, modify something or throw the > >whole thing away. :-) > > That would probably be a good idea. In the meantime, my only comment > is that for consistency with make_zipfile, the code should work even > if gzip, tarfile, or bz2 aren't importable. That is, falling back to > the old spawn-based methods if the relevant library or libraries are > not available. The comment at the top, after all, says "This module > should be kept compatible with Python 2.1," and the tarfile and bz2 > modules weren't added until 2.3. (I'm not sure when gzip was added.) > > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
