[Python-Dev] buildin vs. shared modules

[Guido van Rossum]

> The only module needing external source is zlib - and this is one I
> care about because it may be useful for zipimport of compressed
> modules.  Can't we simply import the zlib sources into Python's CVS?

I don't like that very much; there are always licensing issues.  (Even
though we did do this for expat.)

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