[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

[Fredrik Lundh]

2010/12/5 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
>> 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

So source tarballs are <10% of the downloads (not very surprising; I
guess most people use binary package managers if they want a runtime,
and SVN if they want source).  Sounds like people who are concerned
about overall bandwidth use should look at optimizing the installer
size instead :)

</F>

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