[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2005-12-16 through 2005-12-31

[Thomas Heller]

Tony Meyer <tony.meyer at gmail.com> writes:

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> Adding zlib module to python25.dll
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> Thomas Heller and Martin Heller had been discussing whether the zlib

Should be 'Martin v. Löwis', as we all know.

> module should become builtin, at least on Windows (i.e. part of
> python25.dll). This would simplify both the build process and py2exe,
> the latter could then bootstrap extraction from the compressed file
> just with pythonxy.dll, but this is currently not done, because the
> pythoncore.vcproj would then not be buildable anymore unless you also
> have the right version of zlib on disk.  To solve this problem, Thomas
> proposed that the Python release could incorporate a copy of zlib,
> primarily for use on Windows (with the project files appropriately
> adjusted).  This change was later made.
>
> Contributing thread:
>
>  - `Incorporation of zlib sources into Python subversion
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058873.html>`__