Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> added the comment: > I do not quite see the benefit from the set_* methods. > .. some explanations of the underlying complexity...
The only benefit I can see for the set_* method is to hide the underlying complexity you've explained. In Distutils, I'd like to provide a uid and gid option to the sdist command where the user can set "root" for instance and see the lib taking care of creating a tarfile with everything set to the right value (and ignore the flags under windows etc) So it seems that working per TarInfo is the wrong approach, and a global function to create an archive would be better. > The filter argument is actually a nice idea. I have attached a > patch that outlines my idea of how it is supposed to be. > Comments welcome. The patch looks nice to me small typo in the doc : > How create should be "How to create" ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6856> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
