Re: [python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

I wonder if it's still necessary to provide .tar.bz2 and .tgz source tarballs. If anything, it would be nice to provide .tar.xz in addition to .tar.bz2, which has a nicer compression ratio:

Looking at download statistics, for the 2.7 release, in July, we had these numbers of downloads:

Python-2.7.tgz 32059 Python-2.7.tar.bz2 24986 python-2.7.msi 577240

In November, the numbers were

Python-2.7.tgz 24535 Python-2.7.tar.bz2 20797 python-2.7.msi 569328

Regards, Martin