[issue6296] Native (and default) tarfile support for setup.py sdist in distutils on Windows
R. David Murray
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jun 24 22:28:14 CEST 2009
R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:
I do not believe it is true that zip is supported by all platforms out
of the box. As far as I know Gentoo, for example, does not install
unzip by default. For that matter, before windows XP one had to
download a utility to unzip files on windows (and that utility handles
tar files just fine). Since there are still a few pre-XP windows boxes
out there, it is not even true to say that all Windows machines handle
zip out of the box.
Personally I would very much dislike it if python source distributions
were zipfiles by default.
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