[Distutils] greater compression on pypi?

[Wes Turner]

These docs explain the challeges of supporting caching with ETags, Gzip,
and conditional requests:

https://chibisov.github.io/drf-extensions/docs/#gzipped-etags

On Monday, August 22, 2016, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dholth at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>  The 'multiple versions with different compression algorithms' idea
> assumes some consumers don't have .xz and would prefer the .gz version for
> example.
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> The more variants a file has, the less likely a cache hit is for any given
> request. The goal is to reduce the number of variants not increase them.
>
> —
> Donald Stufft
>
>
>
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