[Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

[Hanno Schlichting]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Adam GROSZER <agroszer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess which were created by windowze people. It does zips by default.

Nope. I only create zips being on Mac OS.

With the tarfile module in Python 2.4 being utterly broken, I ran into
too much trouble with broken tar.gzips over time.

At least in the Plone world we demanded everyone to use zip files all
the time as the sdist format. We haven't enforced that, though.

Hanno