-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/10 15:15, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 12:16 +0100, Georg Brandl a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> 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: >> >> .tgz - 13 MB >> .tar.bz2 - 11 MB >> .tar.xz - 8.6 MB > > It is likely that many non-GNU based platforms, such as commercial > Unices, don't know about xz yet (not to mention old Debian / RHEL > machines). So I would vote to continue providing .tar.bz2 and/or .tgz > tarballs.
Providing XZ files *IN ADDITION* to gz/bz2 will increase the mindshare for the format. I am checking the webpage and installing the XZ tools just now :-). - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ j...@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:j...@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQCVAwUBTP4U7Zlgi5GaxT1NAQK0NAP+KCij3y/m5O8a9wioP2atPDjn8DFwWxxv 2uMQKBCQikGiVS5LRF6gE11jvJMRBnmaW6RI7HylP/WM7/KtGKx6Fl4MjRzzqKvQ yyk+vY1+RfQ5Oc1Q7vLTLKGTibSXUY59jfQo2I09nCXpkeMYSu4iuz7SSDPS/QUR b9eH+YhexgU= =j2ys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
