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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sat Sep 18 13:00:18 CEST 2004

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

agreed. it may come as a surprise to some people, but Linux is not the only Unix system out there. Python works extremely well on non-Linux systems too... But then, a Unix system does not have gzip, either.

Of the build systems I checked, all had gunzip, most had unzip, but only the Linux systems had bunzip2.

The bzip2 homepage contains 1.0.2 binaries for exactly three plat- forms, compared to over 20 systems for gzip and 30 systems for unzip. I suppose older bzip2 versions (0.9.5) are compatible, but someone should verify that they work before you pull the gzip archives.

Maybe IP isn't available, either, so we should ship QIC tapes.

That's a really helpful comment.

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