[issue16315] Support xz compression in Mac build script

2012-10-25 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: OK. I thought that xz support was just forgot. The xz compression was very popular in the Linux distributives over the past few years. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16315] Support xz compression in Mac build script

2012-10-25 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren added the comment: For the record: I agree with Ned, the patch is not needed at this time and won't work as is anyway (in particular: tar on OSX does not have an 'J' option, so even if you install the lzma tools the patch won't work) --

[issue16315] Support xz compression in Mac build script

2012-10-24 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Serhiy, I see that the context for this patch is that you have been providing xz patches for various parts of Python. For the reasons I mentioned, this particular patch is not needed nor will it work as is on OS X. So I am rejecting it for now. -- resolu

[issue16315] Support xz compression in Mac build script

2012-10-24 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the patch but why are you proposing it? First, there are no xz compressed downloads used in the OS X installer build. Second, OS X currently does not ship with xz library support or with an unxz command. We build libxz for use by Python in the installer

[issue16315] Support xz compression in Mac build script

2012-10-24 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Changes by Serhiy Storchaka : -- title: Support xz compression in Mac buil script -> Support xz compression in Mac build script ___ Python tracker ___ __