[Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Jan 17 21:04:41 CET 2010

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek gmail.com> writes:

Another module I would like to move away from Distutils is "archiveutil". It contains helpers to build archives, whether they are zip or tar files. I propose to move those useful functions into shutil, as this seems the most logical place.

Are these functions portable? Do they rely on external programs?

I also propose to maintain this "shutil" module for now on (no one is declared as a maintainer in maintainers.rst) since Distutils will become a heavy user of its functions.

It's ok for me.

Regards

Antoine.

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