Scott David Daniels wrote:
> I am trying to enable other compression forms in zipfile, in
> particular bzip2, but eventually extensible.  My primary intent
> is to extend the useful life of .zips by allowing better
> compression (and enabling reading and writing zip formats that
> are starting to be created from other sources).

That's a good plan; I hope you make it compatible with WinZIP.

> Would it make
> sense to include bzip2 in here as well (if the zipfile changes
> go in)?

I don't think so. People relying on the builtin compression
support of pythonxy.dll would have to make sure the files are
compressed with zlib.

Regards,
Martin
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