Re: [Python-Dev] LZW support in tarfile ?

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Michael Foord wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Tarek Ziadé 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 b

Re: [Python-Dev] LZW support in tarfile ?

2009-05-18 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Ok thanks for all the feedback, I'll remove compress support Tarek On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Michael Foord wrote: >>  Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> > Tarek Ziadé gmail.com> writes: >> > >> >> But I was wondering if we should we add a LZW support in tarinfo, >> >> be

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384: Defining a Stable ABI

2009-05-18 Thread Michael Foord
Martin v. Löwis wrote: It also might make it easier for alternate implementations to support the same API so some modules could work cross implementation - but I suspect that's a non-goal of this PEP :). Indeed :-) I'm also skeptical that this would actually allow cross-implementat