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

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Mon Sep 20 04:06:01 CEST 2004

Nick Bastin wrote:

If we're only talking binary releases, then I don't really care, but please don't make this change for the source releases. There are several platforms on which Python is supported which do not support bzip2 out of the box (Solaris, as a prime example). It adds just that much more heartache to get python installed on such a system.

I have no intention of dropping tar.gz source releases. I think Fred was talking about the documentation tarballs. Even then, I think there's some advantages to keeping both, and I don't really see the advantage to dropping the tar.gz format. But hey, that's up to Fred - he's the one who makes the doc releases.

Anthony

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