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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Sep 18 10:42:18 CEST 2004

Fredrik Lundh 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. So we probably should use compress(1), or, better yet, distribute uncompressed tar files. Perhaps we should use cpio instead, or pax, because we need to avoid GNU tar extensions. Maybe IP isn't available, either, so we should ship QIC tapes.

On Solaris, bzip2 is in the SUNWbzipS package, and installs into /usr/bin.

Regards, Martin

P.S. Just found this on compress(1) of Solaris 9:

NOTES Although compressed files are compatible between machines with large memory, -b 12 should be used for file transfer to architectures with a small process data space (64KB or less).

Solaris 9 requires a 512MB swap partition for installation, and the installer makes heavy use of Java...

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