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/Lib/packaging/command/bdist.py b/Lib/packaging/command/bdist.py
index e8c023d..b9d550b 100644
--- a/Lib/packaging/command/bdist.py
+++ b/Lib/packaging/command/bdist.py
@@ -64,20 +64,18 @@
'os2': 'zip'}
# Establish the preferred order (for the --help-formats option).
- format_commands = ['gztar', 'bztar', 'ztar', 'tar',
+ format_commands = ['gztar', 'bztar', 'tar',
'wininst', 'zip', 'msi']
# And the real information.
format_command = {'gztar': ('bdist_dumb', "gzip'ed tar file"),
'bztar': ('bdist_dumb', "bzip2'ed tar file"),
- 'ztar': ('bdist_dumb', "compressed tar file"),
'tar': ('bdist_dumb', "tar file"),
'wininst': ('bdist_wininst',
"Windows executable installer"),
'zip': ('bdist_dumb', "ZIP file"),
- 'msi': ('bdist_msi', "Microsoft Installer")
- }
-
+ 'msi': ('bdist_msi', "Microsoft Installer"),
+ }
def initialize_options(self):
self.bdist_base = None
@@ -109,8 +107,9 @@
try:
self.formats = [self.default_format[os.name]]
except KeyError:
- raise PackagingPlatformError("don't know how to create built distributions " + \
- "on platform %s" % os.name)
+ raise PackagingPlatformError(
+ "don't know how to create built distributions "
+ "on platform %s" % os.name)
if self.dist_dir is None:
self.dist_dir = "dist"