Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > How about only adding those parts which would be needed to > > at least deflate the ZIP archive contents ? > > Ditto -- still lots of portability issues I bet. Hmm, not sure: zlib is pretty portable. Its the interface changes that can break code, not so much the zlib portability. > > 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 :-) > > There's a simple solution: don't use compression. With current disk > prices it's really not worth it. Let the installer do the > decompression (installers travel across networks where compression > *is* worth it). That's a possibility, right. It would still let us use the many ZIP tools while not adding complexity to the core. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 21 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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