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author | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-29 23:19:02 (GMT) |
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committer | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-29 23:19:02 (GMT) |
commit | 83ab3f319b3b83c84c4df72349b6ce7d5ec936da (patch) | |
tree | e20adfadf4a6d50d954aa5cd13a3e89616a4fc4a /Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst | |
parent | ff29ff88314badd8ba868de8cce5684d0f4611a4 (diff) | |
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Remove obsolete mentions of the compress program and .Z archives.
Packaging uses the shutil.make_archive function copied from distutils,
which does not support compress. There is no test to check that
“bdist --format whatever” works, so this slipped by.
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diff --git a/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst b/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst index 0cd4df3..2cedc15 100644 --- a/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst +++ b/Doc/packaging/sourcedist.rst @@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ to create a gzipped tarball and a zip file. The available formats are: | ``bztar`` | bzip2'ed tar file | | | | (:file:`.tar.bz2`) | | +-----------+-------------------------+---------+ -| ``ztar`` | compressed tar file | \(4) | -| | (:file:`.tar.Z`) | | -+-----------+-------------------------+---------+ | ``tar`` | tar file (:file:`.tar`) | | +-----------+-------------------------+---------+ @@ -50,11 +47,7 @@ Notes: requires either external :program:`zip` utility or :mod:`zipfile` module (part of the standard Python library since Python 1.6) -(4) - requires the :program:`compress` program. Notice that this format is now - pending for deprecation and will be removed in the future versions of Python. - -When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar``, ``ztar`` or +When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar`` or ``tar``) under Unix, you can specify the ``owner`` and ``group`` names that will be set for each member of the archive. |