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

[Anthony Baxter]

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.

I have no intention of dropping tar.gz source releases. I think Fred
was talking about the documentation tarballs. Even then, I think there's
some advantages to keeping both, and I don't really see the advantage
to dropping the tar.gz format. But hey, that's up to Fred - he's the
one who makes the doc releases.

Anthony


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