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

[Anthony Baxter]

Brett C. wrote:
> My personal take on all of this is that we make the release manager's 
> job as simple as possible.  That means either ditch gzip files or ditch 
> bzip2 files. 

I disagree, almost 100%. The job of release management is to make
it as easy as possible for people to get and use Python. The language
isn't being organised for _my_ benefit.

Last I looked, tar.bz2 was less than 1/4 of tar.gz in terms of number
of downloads (see http://www.python.org/wwwstats/usage_200409.html)
That's hardly a case for switching.


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