Re: Compression format for ZTK packages
Martijn Faassen <[email protected]>
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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 > > And bz2 module might be missing for many Python installations. I suggest we stick to the status quo for the time being then (zip and tgz, no bz2). If matters are fixed in Python 2.5 we should look into dropping Python 2.4 support again sometime in the near future. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ 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 )