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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > BTW, wouldn't it make sense to include the zlib code
> > in the core distribution much like the pcre stuff is now ?
> > AFAIK, it is public domain and including it would remedy many of the
> > compatibility issues with the different zlib versions around.
> 
> What compatibility issues?  Note that the Win32 distri already comes
> with zlib statically linked into zlib.pyd.

There were issues with zlib 1.0.4 and later ones. Also, many
Linux distributions don't have the zlib header files installed.

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