[issue5685] use tarinfo module in distutils

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: superseded by #1886 -- status: open -> closed superseder: -> Permit to easily use distutils "--formats=tar,gztar,bztar" on all systems ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5685] use tarinfo module in distutils

New submission from Tarek Ziadé : Currently, Distutils makes a system call to tar files, using the tar command. Let's use Python's tarinfo module, so we don't rely on the tar program anymore. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils messages: 85384 nosy: tarek priority: high severity: no