Re: Compression format for ZTK packages
Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Baiju M wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> 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. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkspV2UACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5+hwCgn5ABDO3+M8jL3NJO5VA8Zw1Z gKYAn0nlRUWoAvtf4xum0jpTFRtvKPII =623s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )