make distutils use the tarfile module

[tarekziade]

BPO	6048
Nosy	@tarekziade

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title = 'make distutils use the tarfile module'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue6048'
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[tarekziade]

Currently Distutils uses the "tar" command to build tarballs.

It's better to use the tarinfo module, so Distutils does not depend on
the "tar" program anymore.

[tarekziade]

done in r72981 and r72984