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Sun Jan 17 21:43:05 CET 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-January/097369.html

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
[..]
>> Are these functions portable? Do they rely on external programs?
>>
>>
>
> I believe that part of the work that Tarek has been doing has been to make
> these distutils commands use the Python standard library and not depend on
> external programs. In which case they seem like *excellent* additions to the
> shutil module.

yes, in the past the "tar" files where created using the "tar" command
but this has been changed. For a while now, they are portable and they
use stdlib code only. A recent addition is to be able to define
user/group permissions in the tar files, thanks to Lars' work in the
tarfile module.

There's one remaining external call for "zip" done if the zip module
is not found, but I am happy to remove it and throw an exception if
it's not found, and keep the external "zip" call on Distutils side, so
shutil stays 100% stdlib-powered.

> Of course Tarek can speak for himself...

Thanks for explaining it ! :)

Regards
Tarek

-- 
Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org

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