[Python-Dev] Zip format (was: Questions about distutils strategy )

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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