[Python-Dev] Including zlib... (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jan 3 22:13:00 CET 2006
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OK. As long a typical Unix build still links with whatever shared zlib is present on the box I'm fine with this.
--Guido
On 1/3/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
[Guido] > Hear, hear.
[Skip] >> Martin checked in zlib to the Python svn repository. Are we really sure >> that including zlib is the only path to whatever it is that it achieves? If >> security holes in zlib turn up (they have in the past), new Python releases >> will have to be released quickly. Martin & Thomas Heller proposed it here about two weeks ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058873.html It's pimarily for the benefit of py2exe on Windows. AFAICT, he didn't change Python's treatment of zlib on non-Windows boxes; on Windows zlib is now compiled in to the core DLL.
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