Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: tar is modular and depends on optional external programs to handle compression (tar itself does archival only).
gzip is still common, and xz has largely replaced bz2 these days. I would expect it to be installed on most systems. (For HTTP compression there are new competitors, brotli and zstd, but I haven’t seen these used to compress files.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue20741> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
