Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> added the comment: Now that distutils uses tarfile (see #6048) we can propose a tar archive on all platform by default without requiring "tar" to be installed.
Althoug, the gz compression requires the zlib module. I need to check what are the requirements of its installation in the sdtlib. For the MANIFEST file, do you mean the file generated by MANIFEST.in ? ---------- versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6296> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com