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

[Scott David Daniels]

Lalo Martins wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:09:47PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>>I'm still planning to make ZIP archives available.  If anyone would like to 
>>argue that I should drop that as well, feel free.  ;-)
> 
> 1. the main archive software packages for all OSes support
> tar.bz2 in their current releases.  (This includes WinZip,
> WinRAR and whatnot.)
> 
> 2. if you can't be bothered to know what is a tar.bz2 and how to
> open it, you won't be getting the ZIP, but rather the EXE installer.

.zip is the only one of these 3 formats that allows you to decompress a
few files without expanding the entire archive.  This feature is useful
to me at least (and makes up for the larger size).
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-- Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org