> Well, is it more popular because that is just what people are used to > downloading or the first download link on the web page? Or is it > because people fundamentally prefer tgz files over tar.bz2?
These questions are difficult to answer with the download stats alone. If you really want to know, we should setup a poll... > Are there > actual platforms that can't handle tar.bz2 but can handle tgz? That, in turn, is easy to answer: yes, there are. Certain Solaris releases had gzip available (even though /usr/bin/tar wouldn't know how to invoke it), but no bzip2 utility. > I'm > willing to bet it's because of the download link order and has nothing > to do with actual preference (especially since we don't state file > size on the download page). Not sure what page you are looking at; on http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ we do. > Personally I don't know why we have both tgz and tar.bz2 other than > tradition. I say trim it down to tar.bz2 for portability and move on > to using a ustar-based tar.xz to be cutting edge and minimize download > size overall while making it the first download option to make sure > people notice it. I'd also vote for listing the file size on the > download page, but that's just another step for release managers that > I don't want to burden them with. You would also need to specify what page you refer to as "the download page". Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
