OK. As long a typical Unix build still links with whatever shared zlib is present on the box I'm fine with this.
--Guido On 1/3/06, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
