Zooko O'Whielacronx <zo...@zooko.com> added the comment: I strongly favor a common approach instead of doing it differently on different platforms. (Aside: check out the gratuitous differences for names and locations of distutils config files: http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#location-and-names-of-config-files .)
I weakly favor tar over zip. The current release of tar features LZMA compression, for example: $ ls -lS -rw-rw-r-- 1 zooko zooko 8355840 2009-06-17 09:48 allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1-r3916.tar -rw-rw-r-- 1 zooko zooko 2562835 2009-06-17 09:51 allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1-r3916.zip -rw-rw-r-- 1 zooko zooko 2383653 2009-06-17 09:48 allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1-r3916.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 zooko zooko 2250149 2009-06-17 09:49 allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1-r3916.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zooko zooko 2223425 2009-06-17 09:49 allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1-r3916.tar.rz -rw-rw-r-- 1 zooko zooko 1818466 2009-06-17 09:52 allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1-r3916.7z -rw-rw-r-- 1 zooko zooko 1811698 2009-06-17 09:50 allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1-r3916.tar.xz Presumably the current tar module in Python doesn't yet support LZMA, but it is a good possibility for the future. On the other hand, ZIP is more widely used, e.g. by setuptools and especially by tools which were born in Windows world. ---------- nosy: +zooko _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6296> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
