2010/12/5 Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net>: > 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
tgz (and zip) are the most portable formats available, though. What does the site stats say about current usage? (btw, someone mentioned bandwidth -- are we paying for bandwidth? what fraction of the python.org traffic is downloads?) </F> _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
