>> 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. > > If these are Solaris platforms we support then that's fine and we > should keep tgz files, but if these are platforms we no longer care > about then I say the lives of release managers should be simplified by > cutting tgz files.
We haven't been really careful in determining what Solaris releases we support; PEP 11 lists no Solaris releases that are not supported anymore. I'd say anything since Solaris 9 (released 2002) needs to be supported. Unfortunately, I don't have any installation of that anymore, so I'm not sure whether it had bzip2 - I doubt it, but it is certainly possible to obtain a bzip2 binary from SunFreeware (or build it yourself from source). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
