[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

[Michael Foord]

On 07/12/2010 11:05, Jesus Cea wrote:
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> On 05/12/10 15:15, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> 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.
> Providing XZ files *IN ADDITION* to gz/bz2 will increase the mindshare
> for the format. I am checking the webpage and installing the XZ tools
> just now :-).
>

That's not *our* job though.

Michael

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