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.
diff --git a/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst b/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst
index 3f3e790..b1e5e93 100644
--- a/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst
+++ b/Doc/packaging/builtdist.rst
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@
| ``gztar`` | gzipped tar file | (1),(3) |
| | (:file:`.tar.gz`) | |
+-------------+------------------------------+---------+
-| ``ztar`` | compressed tar file | \(3) |
-| | (:file:`.tar.Z`) | |
-+-------------+------------------------------+---------+
| ``tar`` | tar file (:file:`.tar`) | \(3) |
+-------------+------------------------------+---------+
| ``zip`` | zip file (:file:`.zip`) | (2),(4) |
@@ -98,8 +95,8 @@
default on Windows
(3)
- requires external utilities: :program:`tar` and possibly one of :program:`gzip`,
- :program:`bzip2`, or :program:`compress`
+ requires external utilities: :program:`tar` and possibly one of :program:`gzip`
+ or :program:`bzip2`
(4)
requires either external :program:`zip` utility or :mod:`zipfile` module (part
@@ -109,14 +106,14 @@
option; you can also use the command that directly implements the format you're
interested in. Some of these :command:`bdist` "sub-commands" actually generate
several similar formats; for instance, the :command:`bdist_dumb` command
-generates all the "dumb" archive formats (``tar``, ``ztar``, ``gztar``, and
+generates all the "dumb" archive formats (``tar``, ``gztar``, and
``zip``). The :command:`bdist` sub-commands, and the formats generated by
each, are:
+--------------------------+-----------------------+
| Command | Formats |
+==========================+=======================+
-| :command:`bdist_dumb` | tar, ztar, gztar, zip |
+| :command:`bdist_dumb` | tar, gztar, zip |
+--------------------------+-----------------------+
| :command:`bdist_wininst` | wininst |
+--------------------------+-----------------------+