[Python-Dev] Including zlib... (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 22:22:09 CET 2006

[Guido]

OK. As long a typical Unix build still links with whatever shared zlib is present on the box I'm fine with this.

[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.

[Tim]

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.

I figure that if we keep this conversation going long enough, we can eventually shame Guido out of top-posting before it becomes a habit ;-).

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