Am 06.12.2010 13:24, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Dec 05, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > >>It only increases complexity if we don't cut one of the tar.bz2 or tgz >>source releases. But by offering a a tar.xz file we can give people a >>smaller download which saves everyone time and bandwidth which can >>matter if the downloader's Internet connection is slow and/or costly. > > I mildly wonder about download scripts out there that have baked-in > assumptions about the files that are available. It's not actually that hard > to predict the url of a download file for a new release. > > I can't imagine *adding* a download format is that much more complex, except > perhaps for our users to try to figure out which file to grab, and even that's > stretching it I think. But I would be okay with adding an .xz download for > 3.2 and then re-evaluating the offerings for 3.3. It would be an interesting > experiment to see how many .xz downloads we get (I hadn't even heard of the > format until now).
One thing to consider is that distributions such as Gentoo will certainly switch to using the .xz, but mirror it. So even if it doesn't show up as a large download count on python.org, every user of these distributions can profit from the reduced download size. Georg _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
