id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
1784	distutils fails sdist and bdist if zlib is not installed	whiteknight	fperrad	"If zlib is not installed, the GzipHandle PMC will not be installed with Parrot. distutils does not check this condition, it attempts to loadlib gziphandle, and when it cannot be found there is a cryptic unhandled exception.

distutils should attempt to detect the presence of gziphandle, and display a helpful error message if it cannot be found."	bug	closed	normal		library	2.7.0	medium	fixed