On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:02:05 -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 17, 2009, at 15:07 PM, Trent Mick wrote: > >> The tradeoff is that .zip files are compressed as well. But I don't >> believe that difference in compression size >> between .zip/.tar.gz/.tar.bz2 is that big of a concern in *most* >> cases because most Python sdist's are small, are they not? > > My project is 2.5 MB in .zip, 2.25 MB in .tar.bz2, and 1.8 MB > in .tar.xz. I would be happy to save that 700 KB by moving from .zip > to .tar.xz (once there is LZMA-tar in Python), but I'm more concerned > about the permissions issues, which are still an unsolved problem in > setuptools, e.g.: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue6
But setup tools looks like it is trying to do the "right" thing and getting it wrong... 10% difference in library size is nothing. Somebody obviously needs to look into the bug... David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
