[Guido] > OK. As long a typical Unix build still links with whatever shared zlib > is present on the box I'm fine with this. [Guido] >>> Hear, hear. [Skip] >>>> Martin checked in zlib to the Python svn repository. Are we really sure >>>> that including zlib is the only path to whatever it is that it achieves? If >>>> security holes in zlib turn up (they have in the past), new Python releases >>>> will have to be released quickly. [Tim] >> Martin & Thomas Heller proposed it here about two weeks ago: >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058873.html >> >> It's pimarily for the benefit of py2exe on Windows. AFAICT, he didn't >> change Python's treatment of zlib on non-Windows boxes; on Windows >> zlib is now compiled in to the core DLL. I figure that if we keep this conversation going long enough, we can eventually shame Guido out of top-posting before it becomes a habit ;-).
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