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

[Erik Heneryd]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Erik Heneryd wrote:
> 
>> Yes, those with older, bzip2less systems can probably figure out how 
>> to get it and build it, but why force them when it's practically no 
>> work keeping it?  It's one (sic) extra command for the release manager 
>> and ~9M extra disk space per release on www.python.org.
> 
> 
> Fred wouldn't have asked if it was no effort in keeping it. There is
> certainly more than one command to it - you have to md5sum the file,
> and copy the md5sum into the release notes. You have to upload the file
> from your workstation to python.org. I don't know how you do that, but
> I need to use my DSL link for uploading the MSI files; it takes roughly
> 30min to upload. Fortunately, I have a DSL flatrate.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

Yeah, I was a bit hasty.  Sure, it's more than one command:

* pack it
* unpack it
* diff it against the known-to-be-good bzip2 tree
* md5sum it and add that to the release notes
* add another link on the download page
* ...something else?

but I still think my point stands - it's not that much work, really, and 
it'd be a nice service to those with bzip2less systems.  Regarding 
upload times I guess I'm just another spoiled swede;  I've been on 
ethernet for so long I can barely remember what 5k/s was like...

That said, I do realise that it all adds up and that doing a release 
take some work, so whether you decide to keep it or not: thanks.


Erik