[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

[Fredrik Lundh]

2010/12/5 Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org>:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>> (btw, someone mentioned bandwidth -- are we paying for bandwidth? what
>> fraction of the python.org traffic is downloads?)
>
> Even if the PSF isn't paying for bandwidth (and I don't know either
> way), users on the other end often are.  This is understandable and
> real concern.
>
> If providing this new format helps them, I'd be all for that.

Sure, I don't mind adding a new format -- I'd like to see more metrics
before I convince myself that removing the lowest common denominator
format is a good idea, though.

(and the difference is one MP3 or a short YouTube clip, so I'm not
sure how real this issue is...)

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