Am 05.12.2010 20:39, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": >> 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: > > Looking at download statistics, for the 2.7 release, in July, we had > these numbers of downloads: > > Python-2.7.tgz 32059 > Python-2.7.tar.bz2 24986 > python-2.7.msi 577240 > > In November, the numbers were > > Python-2.7.tgz 24535 > Python-2.7.tar.bz2 20797 > python-2.7.msi 569328
OK, so the tgz is still more popular than the bz2 one, and that means it shouldn't go away. I've decided to make tar.xz tarballs available for the remaining 3.2 prereleases; we'll see if anyone at all is interested in them. As for the .zip version, I've not found any requests for a source download with Windows-specific newlines. I suppose that developers either check out directly from SVN, or have decompression programs and editors that can cope. cheers, Georg _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
