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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Sep 18 13:27:02 CEST 2004

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

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

Sure, there are systems that don't have bunzip2 installed. However, what is the problem of installing it? All you need is a C compiler, and I'm sure you have one - how else are you going to install Python?

And if building bzip2 yourself is a problem for some reason I cannot imagine, then what is the problem with using a prebuilt binary?

As I said, Solaris (atleast Solaris 9) comes with bzip2. If you have an older Solaris release, you can get a binary from sunfreeware.com.

For HP-UX, you can get it from the HP porting center, e.g.

http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Misc/bzip2-1.0.2/ (both PA-RISC and Itanium binaries, for 10.20, 11.00, 11.20, and 11.22)

For AIX, you can get it from http://www.bullfreeware.com/.

What other systems have you been looking at?

Regards, Martin

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