[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

[Fredrik Lundh]

2010/12/5 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net>:
> Hi,
>
> 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:
>
> .tgz     - 13 MB
> .tar.bz2 - 11 MB
> .tar.xz  - 8.6 MB

tgz (and zip) are the most portable formats available, though.  What
does the site stats say about current usage?

(btw, someone mentioned bandwidth -- are we paying for bandwidth? what
fraction of the python.org traffic is downloads?)

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