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

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Sat Sep 18 00:33:38 CEST 2004

Lalo Martins wrote:

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.

.zip is the only one of these 3 formats that allows you to decompress a few files without expanding the entire archive. This feature is useful to me at least (and makes up for the larger size).

-- Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org

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