Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
But I was wondering if we should we add a LZW support in tarinfo,
besides gzip and bzip2 ?
Although this compression standard doesn't seem very used these days,
It would be more useful to add LZMA / xz support.
I don't think compress is used anymore, except perhaps on old legacy systems.
On my Linux system, I have lots of .gz, .bz2 and .lzma files, but absolutely no
.Z file.
I've seen the occasional .Z file in recent years, but never that I
recall for a Python package.
As plugging in external compression tools is less likely to work
cross-platform wouldn't it be both easier and better to deprecate (and
not replace) the compress support.
If there is a huge outcry adding LZW support to tarfile can be reconsidered.
Michael Foord
Regards
Antoine.
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