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I do not believe it is true that zip is supported by all platforms out
of the box. As far as I know Gentoo, for example, does not install
unzip by default. For that matter, before windows XP one had to
download a utility to unzip files on windows (and that utility handles
tar files just fine). Since there are still a few pre-XP windows boxes
out there, it is not even true to say that all Windows machines handle
zip out of the box.
Personally I would very much dislike it if python source distributions
were zipfiles by default. |
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2009-06-24 20:28:14 | r.david.murray | set | recipients:
+ r.david.murray, zooko, pitrou, tim.golden, tarek, rpetrov, michael.foord |
2009-06-24 20:28:14 | r.david.murray | set | messageid: <1245875294.16.0.411455048484.issue6296@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2009-06-24 20:28:12 | r.david.murray | link | issue6296 messages |
2009-06-24 20:28:12 | r.david.murray | create | |
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