A set of Unix utilities implemented in pure Python.

These tools are currently only meant as supplement to be able to use distutils's sdist_tar, sdist_bztar and sdist_gztar on Windows/Wine. Thus they currently only support the flags required by distutils.

But perhaps this will grow. Feel free to enhance.

Background

distutils command sdist calls external programs (tar, gzip, bzip2) if requested to generate formats tar, gztar or bztar. Since distutils should be kept compatible with Python 2.1, this will not change any soon. But if you want to create these formats on Windows (or at least on a minimalistic set up Wine environment) you'll need the respective executables. I did not find a reliable and trusted source within time, so I decided that the easiest way would be to just implement these programs in Python. Now here we are :-)