[Python-Dev] Planning to drop gzip compression for future releases.

[Lalo Martins]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:09:47PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> I'm still planning to make ZIP archives available.  If anyone would like to 
> argue that I should drop that as well, feel free.  ;-)

1. the main archive software packages for all OSes support
tar.bz2 in their current releases.  (This includes WinZip,
WinRAR and whatnot.)

2. if you can't be bothered to know what is a tar.bz2 and how to
open it, you won't be getting the ZIP, but rather the EXE installer.

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