[Python-Dev] Planning to drop gzip compression for future releases.

[Nick Bastin]

On Sep 17, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Lalo Martins wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:09:47PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>> I'm still planning to make ZIP archives available.  If anyone would 
>> like to
>> argue that I should drop that as well, feel free.  ;-)
>
> 1. the main archive software packages for all OSes support
> tar.bz2 in their current releases.  (This includes WinZip,
> WinRAR and whatnot.)

If we're only talking binary releases, then I don't really care, but 
please don't make this change for the source releases.  There are 
several platforms on which Python is supported which do not support 
bzip2 out of the box (Solaris, as a prime example).  It adds just that 
much more heartache to get python installed on such a system.

--
Nick