[Python-Dev] Re: [Distutils] Questions about distutils strategy

[Guido van Rossum]

> I agree.  I can't recall the details now, but I had a lot of problems
> with zip concatenation in JPython.  I think at least some of the older
> Java tools for groking zips don't work with contatenation.

The Java "jar" tool mostly ignores the central directory -- it seems
to read the archive from the front, using the local header records,
and ignoring the central directory (of course it writes one when it
creates an archive).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)