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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Sep 18 15:52:05 CEST 2004

Erik Heneryd wrote:

Yes, those with older, bzip2less systems can probably figure out how to get it and build it, but why force them when it's practically no work keeping it? It's one (sic) extra command for the release manager and ~9M extra disk space per release on www.python.org.

Fred wouldn't have asked if it was no effort in keeping it. There is certainly more than one command to it - you have to md5sum the file, and copy the md5sum into the release notes. You have to upload the file from your workstation to python.org. I don't know how you do that, but I need to use my DSL link for uploading the MSI files; it takes roughly 30min to upload. Fortunately, I have a DSL flatrate.

Regards, Martin

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