[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 12:16 +0100, Georg Brandl a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if it's still necessary to provide .tar.bz2 and .tgz source
> tarballs.  If anything, it would be nice to provide .tar.xz in addition
> to .tar.bz2, which has a nicer compression ratio:
> 
> .tgz     - 13 MB
> .tar.bz2 - 11 MB
> .tar.xz  - 8.6 MB

It is likely that many non-GNU based platforms, such as commercial
Unices, don't know about xz yet (not to mention old Debian / RHEL
machines). So I would vote to continue providing .tar.bz2 and/or .tgz
tarballs.

Regards

Antoine.