[issue6715] xz compressor support
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Oct 4 20:08:55 CEST 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> > That's because all system-specific functionality that we have really
> > depends on system features which just can't be available elsewhere.
> > For all functionality that in principle works on all systems, it also
> > actually works on all systems for Python. In cases where stuff was
> > only available on Linux even though it could work on other systems,
> > people *did* see it as a bad thing.
>
> Agreed, but it's a probably with the external library. That's like
> saying we are responsible if libffi fails building with the AIX
> compiler.
s/probably/problem/ ;)
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