[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

[Georg Brandl]

Am 05.12.2010 13:33, schrieb Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven:
> -On [20101205 12:19], Georg Brandl (g.brandl at gmx.net) wrote:
>>I wonder if it's still necessary to provide .tar.bz2 and .tgz source
>>tarballs.  If anything, it would be nice to provide .tar.xz in addition
>>to .tar.bz2, which has a nicer compression ratio:
> 
> Given that xz is only provided since GNU Coreutils 7.1 and only in some
> newer BSD releases (if at all, I know FreeBSD 8 at least has it in the base,
> no idea about pkgsrc and such), I'd say you might want to provide tgz and
> tbz2 for another year before really stopping to provide other formats.

That's why I said "in addition to".

> I mean, seriously, is providing some extra files in a particular compression
> format the biggest of our problems?

It was just a thought I had while I watched the files upload through my
rather slow link.  I promise I won't disturb you again tackling our real
big problems.

Georg