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

[Paramjit Oberoi]

I'm not sure how easy or difficult it would be---but it would be very
convenient for me if the documentation was also downloadable in
windows help (CHM) format.  Currently CHM files are only available in
windows installers, but I use them on Linux (easier to search, etc).

-param

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:36:15 -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> [Responding to an absolutely enormous deluge of emails on python-dev...]
> 
> On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:06 pm, Anthony Baxter wrote:
>  > 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.
> 
> Dang, it doesn't pay to be away from email for three days, does it?
> 
> Yes, I was only talking about documentation releases.  It never occurred to me
> anyone would think I was talking about Python source releases.  Maybe I
> shouldn't have added python-dev to the recipients list for my original email,
> but too often objections get heard quite late if I don't include python-dev.
> 
> For the documentation, there's a much longer history of providing the bz2
> versions of the archives.  There are also many more archives we can drop per
> release.
> 
> While in theory disk space isn't supposed to be an issue, it seems to be
> something our sysadmin group is dealing with on a regular basis (mostly
> cleaning up old webserver logs).  So while the space itself may not be an
> issue, it certainly generates tedious work for volunteers.
> 
> My motivation in dropping the bz2 archives is two-fold:
> 
> 1.  Reduce disk space consumed per release, mostly to ease the burden on the
> sysadmin group.
> 
> 2.  Reduce the number of files posted for the documentation per release, so
> that choices for end-users are easier to pick through.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   -Fred
> 
> --
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
> 
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