Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-17 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > Could someone remind me if the bug happens during packing (and breaks > the .tgz for everyone, which gets noticed and fixed soon) or during > unpacking (and affects only a small percentage of users; those who still > use python 2.4, and is

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-17 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:53:58PM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > On 2009-12-16 08:35, Baiju M wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are > >> in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. > >> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz forma

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-17 Thread Martijn Faassen
Baiju M wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Withers wrote: >> Baiju M wrote: >>>Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are >>> in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. >>> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? >> Why does anyone care? They

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Baiju M wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Withers wrote: >> Baiju M wrote: >>>Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are >>> in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. >>> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format fo

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > On 2009-12-16 08:35, Baiju M wrote: >> Hi, >> Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are >> in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. >> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? > >

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 17:31, Baiju M wrote: > Others has already raised their concern against .tar.gz > as it is not working in Python 2.4 > > And bz2 module might be missing for many Python installations. > (BTW, We don't have any bz2 source packages released) Right. So for consistency we shou

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Baiju M
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > Baiju M wrote: >> >>    Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are >> in .tar.gz format.  But there are few exceptions. >> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? > > Why does anyone care? They both work the sam

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Baiju M
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hi there, > > Baiju M wrote: >>     Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are >> in .tar.gz format.  But there are few exceptions. >> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? > > Which are the exceptions? I j

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Withers
Baiju M wrote: > Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are > in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. > For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? Why does anyone care? They both work the same on all platforms... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Andreas Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 schrieb Hanno Schlichting: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Adam GROSZER > wrote: >> I guess which were created by windowze people. It does zips by >> default. > > Nope. I only create zips being on Mac OS. > > With the tarfile module in Python 2.4 b

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Adam GROSZER wrote: > I guess which were created by windowze people. It does zips by default. Nope. I only create zips being on Mac OS. With the tarfile module in Python 2.4 being utterly broken, I ran into too much trouble with broken tar.gzips over time. At le

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Adam GROSZER
Hello Martijn, I guess which were created by windowze people. It does zips by default. Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 3:39:00 PM, you wrote: MF> Hi there, MF> Baiju M wrote: >> Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are >> in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. >> For con

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:35, Baiju M wrote: > Hi, >    Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are > in .tar.gz format.  But there are few exceptions. > For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? Why do we need consistency? I mostly use tgz, but that's only because I

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-16 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hi there, Baiju M wrote: > Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are > in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. > For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? Which are the exceptions? Regards, Martijn ___ Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
On 2009-12-16 08:35, Baiju M wrote: > Hi, > Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are > in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. > For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? Once there is a python 2.4 release which fixes the tarfile bug, or once python 2

[Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

2009-12-15 Thread Baiju M
Hi, Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are in .tar.gz format. But there are few exceptions. For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ? PEP 8: A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds Regards, Baiju M __