[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Éric Araujo added the comment: tar is modular and depends on optional external programs to handle compression (tar itself does archival only). gzip is still common, and xz has largely replaced bz2 these days. I would expect it to be installed on most systems. (For HTTP compression there are

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: https://docs.python.org/3/download.html says a) tar.bz2 can be read by the tar program, which I presume is true also of tar.xz. So there is no issue of *needing* two separate programs. It also claims "The .tar.bz2 archives provide the best compression and

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Éric Araujo added the comment: Oh to counter my own proposal: formats should not be removed without warnings, there are probably downstream tools that expect specific URL patterns and formats. So adding something very modern to get the smallest size might be good, but not removing existing

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Éric Araujo added the comment: I don’t think that consistency or standardization really applies here, it’s not like there are tools that want to process both source and doc archives and are broken by the difference in formats. It could be useful to review the formats used and decide if they

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Ned Deily added the comment: Documentation downloads are still built and provided for each release (as linked to from https://www.python.org/doc/ and https://www.python.org/doc/versions/) as well as daily for the heads of each active bugfix and feature branch, in each case via the "Download

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

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[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

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[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Irit Katriel added the comment: Those archives seem to go only up to 3.9. Is this still relevant? -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

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[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

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[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Paul Anton Letnes added the comment: The format (xz vs bzip2) might not matter much, but I'd say consistency does. I'd make the formats identical just for the sake of standardization. Where is this decided? In some (post)build script? -- nosy: +pletnes

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Do we need documentation archives in tar.xz format? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20741

[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

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[issue20741] Documentation archives should be available also in tar.xz format

New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis: Source archives (e.g. in [1]) are available in tgz and tar.xz formats, but documentation archives (e.g. in [2]) are available only in tar.bz2 and zip formats. I suggest that documentation archives be available also in tar.xz format. [1]