2010/12/5 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: >> 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
So source tarballs are <10% of the downloads (not very surprising; I guess most people use binary package managers if they want a runtime, and SVN if they want source). Sounds like people who are concerned about overall bandwidth use should look at optimizing the installer size instead :) </F> > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
