On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Arve Knudsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Arve Knudsen <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi Tarek > >> > Nevermind, there was a problem with the Python installation so that it > >> > didn't support zlib. Reinstalling Python fixed it :) Sorry for > bothering > >> > you. It might be an idea to embellish distribute_setup.py though, so > >> > that it > >> > detects that Python can't untar the gzipped archive (due to missing > zlib > >> > support). That would've saved us some confusion at least :) > >> > Arve > >> > >> Oh.. mmm I think this should even be addressed in tarfile if possible: > >> if tarfile encounters a zipped archive, and zlib is not installed, it > >> should not return a cryptic > >> > >> tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully > >> > >> But an error like > >> > >> tarfile.ReadError: archive not supported (zlib not installed) > > > > Of course, tarfile *should* address this. > > > >> > >> And well, searching for this error in bugs.python.org, it looks like > >> it will be addressed soon: http://bugs.python.org/issue8978 > > > > Nice surprise :) However, it'll only help with fixed versions of Python, > no? > > I figure distribute aims to support older Pythons as well. > > Sure, we simply make sure zlib is installed there since Distribute is > always a targz > > Patches are welcome :D I'll consider it :) Arve
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