[Python-Dev] Re: Planning to drop gzip compression for futurereleases.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nick Bastin wrote:

> 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.

agreed.  it may come as a surprise to some people, but Linux
is not the only Unix system out there.  Python works extremely
well on non-Linux systems too...

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