[python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

[Jesus Cea]

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On 05/12/10 15:15, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 12:16 +0100, Georg Brandl a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> .tgz     - 13 MB
>> .tar.bz2 - 11 MB
>> .tar.xz  - 8.6 MB
> 
> It is likely that many non-GNU based platforms, such as commercial
> Unices, don't know about xz yet (not to mention old Debian / RHEL
> machines). So I would vote to continue providing .tar.bz2 and/or .tgz
> tarballs.

Providing XZ files *IN ADDITION* to gz/bz2 will increase the mindshare
for the format. I am checking the webpage and installing the XZ tools
just now :-).

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