[Guido]
> Hear, hear.
[Skip]
>> Martin checked in zlib to the Python svn repository. Are we really sure
>> that including zlib is the only path to whatever it is that it achieves? If
>> security holes in zlib turn up (they have in the past), new Python releases
>> will have to be released quickly.
Martin & Thomas Heller proposed it here about two weeks ago:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058873.html
It's pimarily for the benefit of py2exe on Windows. AFAICT, he didn't
change Python's treatment of zlib on non-Windows boxes; on Windows
zlib is now compiled in to the core DLL.
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