[Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

[Tres Seaver]

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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> On 2009-12-16 08:35, Baiju M wrote:
>> Hi,
>>      Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are
>> in .tar.gz format.  But there are few exceptions.
>> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ?
> 
> Once there is a python 2.4 release which fixes the tarfile bug,

That release is scheduled for February 31st next year. :)

> or once 
> python 2.4 support is officially no longer desirable.

In practice, the tarfile bug only affects a very small percentage of
packages (they need to contain a file member with a '/' character in the
100th position in its name).  Anybody who builds a package which
generates such a name will just (eventually, anyway) figure out to use
zipfile:  for everybody else, the distinction is meaningless.


Tres.
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