[Python-Dev] LZW support in tarfile ?

[Tarek Ziadé]

Ok thanks for all the feedback, I'll remove compress support

Tarek

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> wrote:
> Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>  Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> > Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> But I was wondering if we should we add a LZW support in tarinfo,
>> >> besides gzip and bzip2 ?
>> >>
>> >> Although this compression standard doesn't seem very used these days,
>> >>
>> >
>> > It would be more useful to add LZMA / xz support.
>> > I don't think compress is used anymore, except perhaps on old legacy systems.
>> > On my Linux system, I have lots of .gz, .bz2 and .lzma files, but absolutely no
>> > .Z file.
>>
>>  I've seen the occasional .Z file in recent years, but never that I
>>  recall for a Python package.
>
> On my unix filesystem (which has files stretching back over 20 years)
> I find only two .Z files, one dated 1989 and one 2002.  I think you
> can safely say that compress is gone!
>
> The worst you are doing by removing compress support is getting the
> user of some ancient platform to download one of the binaries here
> first.
>
>  http://www.gzip.org/#exe
>
>>  As plugging in external compression tools is less likely to work
>>  cross-platform wouldn't it be both easier and better to deprecate (and
>>  not replace) the compress support.
>
> Agreed.
>
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