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

[James C. Ahlstrom]

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:

> How about only adding those parts which would be needed to
> at least deflate the ZIP archive contents ?
> 
> 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 :-)

I think that for now we will need to create archives with
compression method zero: no compression.  That is a valid
compression method all ZIP utilities support.  The point is that
zlib just isn't part of Python.

Jim