[Doc-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation packages
Dethe Elza
delza at blastradius.com
Thu Oct 2 12:20:29 EDT 2003
Tom Emerson wrote:
> What Unix boxen do you use? I often run into Solaris, IRIX, and HP-UX
> boxen that lack unzip.
That's good feedback to have. I was only sharing my limited
experience. Granted, the HP-UX boxen that I have used lacked pretty
much everything, but my experiences with most forms of Unix (besides
Linux and OS X) is growing quite dated now.
> I wouldn't switch to bz2. Even tgz can be confusing. Having .zip files
> for Windows users and .tar.gz files for Unix users is a happy medium
> that should work most everywhere. Of course for maximum Unix
> portability I suppose you could use .tar.Z ;-)
That was more or less my point, but as Barry has pointed out, there are
excellent reasons for keeping the bz2 format. Customer demand is the
best reason I can think of.
--Dethe
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