[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

Łukasz Langa lukasz at langa.pl
Mon Dec 6 13:48:26 CET 2010


Am 06.12.2010 13:24, schrieb Barry Warsaw:
> I can't imagine *adding* a download format is that much more complex, except
> perhaps for our users to try to figure out which file to grab, and even that's
> stretching it I think.  But I would be okay with adding an .xz download for
> 3.2 and then re-evaluating the offerings for 3.3.  It would be an interesting
> experiment to see how many .xz downloads we get (I hadn't even heard of the
> format until now).

I like this idea. And, based on Brett's intuition, I would make the 
bzip2 link be the first. That alone could easily change the usage 
statistics in favor of bzip2.

Best regards,
Łukasz


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