> But, there's an option in Distutils.make_archive to create a tarball > using the "compress" [1] program rather than gzip or bzip2. > Using tar -Z, it will pipe it to the compress program if present. This > program implements the LZW algorithm [2].
As everybody else says: it might be best to just remove that option. For compatibility, perhaps deprecate it in 2.7 and 3.1, and remove in in 3.2. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
