[Zope-dev] Compression format for ZTK packages

[Tres Seaver]

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Baiju M wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Baiju M wrote:
>>>    Most of the source distribution packages of ZTK are
>>> in .tar.gz format.  But there are few exceptions.
>>> For consistency, can we use .tar.gz format for all releases ?
>> Why does anyone care? They both work the same on all platforms...
> 
> Others has already raised their concern against .tar.gz
> as it is not working in Python 2.4

It doesn't affect the huge majority of pacakges we produce.  For any
package it does affect, we use zip, sure.

> And bz2 module might be missing for many Python installations.
> (BTW, We don't have any bz2 source packages released)

That still doesn't require consitency:  we just need to test that the
packages we make can be installed on all supported platforms.



Tres.
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