[Python-Dev] Planning to drop gzip compression for future releases. (original) (raw)

Lalo Martins lalo at laranja.org
Fri Sep 17 20:14:09 CEST 2004


On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:09:47PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

I'm still planning to make ZIP archives available. If anyone would like to argue that I should drop that as well, feel free. ;-)

  1. the main archive software packages for all OSes support tar.bz2 in their current releases. (This includes WinZip, WinRAR and whatnot.)

  2. if you can't be bothered to know what is a tar.bz2 and how to open it, you won't be getting the ZIP, but rather the EXE installer.

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