Ok thanks for all the feedback, I'll remove compress support Tarek
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> wrote: > Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> > Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes: >> > >> >> But I was wondering if we should we add a LZW support in tarinfo, >> >> besides gzip and bzip2 ? >> >> >> >> Although this compression standard doesn't seem very used these days, >> >> >> > >> > It would be more useful to add LZMA / xz support. >> > I don't think compress is used anymore, except perhaps on old legacy >> > systems. >> > On my Linux system, I have lots of .gz, .bz2 and .lzma files, but >> > absolutely no >> > .Z file. >> >> I've seen the occasional .Z file in recent years, but never that I >> recall for a Python package. > > On my unix filesystem (which has files stretching back over 20 years) > I find only two .Z files, one dated 1989 and one 2002. I think you > can safely say that compress is gone! > > The worst you are doing by removing compress support is getting the > user of some ancient platform to download one of the binaries here > first. > > http://www.gzip.org/#exe > >> As plugging in external compression tools is less likely to work >> cross-platform wouldn't it be both easier and better to deprecate (and >> not replace) the compress support. > > Agreed. > > -- > Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ziade.tarek%40gmail.com > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
