[issue12585] distutils dereferences symlinks for zip but not for bztar/gztar target

2011-09-19 Thread Florian Berger
Florian Berger added the comment: > Okay. Adding the easy keyword to lure contributors. Thanks. > I wonder if there is something to fix at all; tar is a smart container > format whereas zip is simpler, so I would not be surprised if the > source of the difference is just tha

[issue5998] Add __bool__ to threading.Event and multiprocessing.Event

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Berger
Florian Berger added the comment: Voting for re-opening. I am currently porting a non-threaded function for use within a threaded application. If threading.Event had __bool__, it would be a drop-in replacement for simple True/False flags that can not be used in multithreaded code. To me, it

[issue12585] distutils dereferences symlinks for zip but not for bztar/gztar target

2011-07-19 Thread Florian Berger
New submission from Florian Berger : When creating a source distribution, formats=zip will dereference symbolic links while formats=bztar,gztar will not. Example: $ ls -l drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 19. Jul 15:44 dist -rw-r--r-- 1 53 19. Jul 15:15 foo.py -rw-r--r-- 1 42 19. Jul 15:39 MANIFEST -rw-r

[issue12585] distutils dereferences symlinks for zip but not for bztar/gztar target

2011-07-19 Thread Florian Berger
Florian Berger added the comment: Hi, thanks for the reply. I see your point with the legacy distutils. > I hope that this explanation will let you see why I’m reluctant to > change distutils: we don’t know what code we will break if we improve > symlink handling. So, do you think

[issue7639] bdist_msi fails on files with long names

2010-12-15 Thread Florian Berger
Florian Berger added the comment: I can confirm that this issue persists in Python 3.1.2 on win32. The patch by cgohlke from 2010-10-22 fixes the problem here as well. -- nosy: +fberger versions: +Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker <h

[issue17274] distutils silently omits relative symlinks

2013-02-22 Thread Florian Berger
New submission from Florian Berger: This issue is related to #12585, #15205 and #8876. In `distutils/archive_util.py`, in `make_zipfile()`, the code for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(base_dir): for name in filenames: path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join

[issue21417] Compression level for zipfile

2015-01-23 Thread Florian Berger
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