[Distutils] greater compression on pypi?

[Daniel Holth]

Thanks for sharing! I'm not planning on implementing any of this any time
soon if ever but wanted to share the ideas.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016, 13:59 Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  The 'multiple versions with different compression algorithms' idea
>> assumes some consumers don't have .xz and would prefer the .gz version for
>> example.
>>
>>
>> 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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