New submission from Giampaolo Rodola': Currently creating tar, gztar, bztar source distributions using the "--formats=tar,gztar,bztar" distutils option requires external utilities (tar and possibly one of gzip, bzip2, or compress) to be installed on the system since distutils uses them. This is not a problem on most UNIX systems which provide these utilities by default. On all other systems (e.g. Windows) it is required to install such utilities separately and have the executables available in a directory on your PATH in order to have them work.
I discussed this on distutils mailing list [1] and tried to fix this hassle. The patch in attachment permit to use the distutils "--formats=tar,gztar,bztar" option without need of having tar/gzip/bzip2 utilities installed by using the tarfile module instead of os.spawn(). It also fixes bug #1885 [2]. [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-January/008654.html [2] http://bugs.python.org/issue1885 ---------- components: Distutils files: file.diff messages: 61451 nosy: giampaolo.rodola severity: normal status: open title: Permit to easily use distutils "--formats=tar,gztar,bztar" on all systems versions: Python 2.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9253/file.diff __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1886> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
