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[Python-Dev] Zip format (was: Questions about distutils strategy ) [Python-Dev] Zip format (was: Questions about distutils strategy )M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:26:10 +0100
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > There were issues with zlib 1.0.4 and later ones. Also, many
> > Linux distributions don't have the zlib header files installed.
> 
> Hm.  I don't recall having any problems reported to me.  I'd rather
> not include the entire zlib distri in the Python distri -- zlib
> is rather big.  Adding only the Unix source would be cheating.

How about only adding those parts which would be needed to
at least deflate the ZIP archive contents ?

If the ZIP archive format becomes the standard for Python, we'd
have to ensure that all Python users can read them. Well, at
least that's what I would expect from a standard format :-)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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