In article <CAFTm5RvZw=nvsmjb2vude3gnyuevcdcyypsiji60ti8ewe+...@mail.gmail.com>, Makoto Kuwata <k...@kuwata-lab.com> wrote: > By the way, I can't find Python-3.3.4.tar.bz2 in: > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.3.4/ > > Python-3.3.{1,2,3}.tar.bz2 and Python-3.4.0.tar.bz2 are provided, > but Python-3.3.4.tar.bz2 is not. Why? > # I hope that Python-3.3.4.tar.bz2 is also provided.
The release managers decided that having three different source release formats was not necessary so, as of recent Python releases, the bz2 format is no longer provided. The newer xz compression format provides generally smaller files than bz2 and the gz format is provided because of its wide support. (BTW, Python 3.4.0 is not released yet; some early alphas of 3.4.0 still provided .bz2 tarballs but the most recent ones, including the current rc1, do not.) -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
