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

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Mon Sep 20 05:31:08 CEST 2004

Brett C. wrote:

My personal take on all of this is that we make the release manager's job as simple as possible. That means either ditch gzip files or ditch bzip2 files.

I disagree, almost 100%. The job of release management is to make it as easy as possible for people to get and use Python. The language isn't being organised for my benefit.

Last I looked, tar.bz2 was less than 1/4 of tar.gz in terms of number of downloads (see http://www.python.org/wwwstats/usage_200409.html) That's hardly a case for switching.

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