[Python-Dev] Planning to drop gzip compression for future releases.

[Tim Peters]

[Lalo Martins]
> 1. the main archive software packages for all OSes support
> tar.bz2 in their current releases.  (This includes WinZip,
> WinRAR and whatnot.)

WinZip 9.0 SR-1 (which is the current release) does not support bz2.