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. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
