Index: E:/Programmazione/Python/Sources/[PRJ] - pyftpdlib/__svn/python/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
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--- E:/Programmazione/Python/Sources/[PRJ] - pyftpdlib/__svn/python/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py	(revision 60172)
+++ E:/Programmazione/Python/Sources/[PRJ] - pyftpdlib/__svn/python/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py	(working copy)
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import os
+try:
+    import tarfile
+except ImportError:
+    tarfile = None
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsExecError
 from distutils.spawn import spawn
 from distutils.dir_util import mkpath
@@ -17,11 +21,15 @@
                   verbose=0, dry_run=0):
     """Create a (possibly compressed) tar file from all the files under
     'base_dir'.  'compress' must be "gzip" (the default), "compress",
-    "bzip2", or None.  Both "tar" and the compression utility named by
-    'compress' must be on the default program search path, so this is
-    probably Unix-specific.  The output tar file will be named 'base_dir' +
-    ".tar", possibly plus the appropriate compression extension (".gz",
-    ".bz2" or ".Z").  Return the output filename.
+    "bzip2", or None.
+    For creating tar, gztar and bztar archives the tarfile module is
+    used as default.
+    If tarfile module is not available both "tar" and the compression
+    utility named by "compress" must be on the default program search
+    path, so this is probably Unix-specific.
+    The output tar file will be named 'base_dir' + ".tar", possibly plus
+    the appropriate compression extension (".gz", ".bz2" or ".Z").
+    Return the output filename.
     """
     # XXX GNU tar 1.13 has a nifty option to add a prefix directory.
     # It's pretty new, though, so we certainly can't require it --
@@ -42,6 +50,19 @@
         raise ValueError, \
               "bad value for 'compress': must be None, 'gzip', or 'compress'"
 
+    if (tarfile is not None) and (compress in (None, "gzip", "bzip2")):
+        if compress is None:
+            ext = '.tar'
+            mode = 'w'
+        else:
+            ext = '.tar' + compress_ext[compress]
+            mode = 'w' + compress_ext[compress].replace('.', '|')
+        archive_name = base_name + ext
+        tar = tarfile.open(archive_name, mode)
+        tar.add(base_dir)
+        tar.close()
+        return archive_name
+
     archive_name = base_name + ".tar"
     mkpath(os.path.dirname(archive_name), dry_run=dry_run)
     cmd = ["tar", "-cf", archive_name, base_dir]

Index: E:/Programmazione/Python/Sources/[PRJ] - pyftpdlib/__svn/python/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
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--- E:/Programmazione/Python/Sources/[PRJ] - pyftpdlib/__svn/python/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py	(revision 60172)
+++ E:/Programmazione/Python/Sources/[PRJ] - pyftpdlib/__svn/python/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py	(working copy)
@@ -446,6 +446,10 @@
 
         self.make_release_tree(base_dir, self.filelist.files)
         archive_files = []              # remember names of files we create
+        # bugfix #1885: if need to create more than one distribution
+        # formats, the tar archive must be created for last
+        if 'tar' in self.formats:
+            self.formats.append(self.formats.pop(self.formats.index('tar')))
         for fmt in self.formats:
             file = self.make_archive(base_name, fmt, base_dir=base_dir)
             archive_files.append(file)