Jeremy Hylton jeremy at cnri.reston.va.us
Fri Jul 23 16:42:41 EDT 1999

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>>>>> "EL" == Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

  EL> I think this really means lowering the standards. I wouldn't
  EL> advocate using a more efficient (but obscure) standard as bzip2
  EL> (at least not yet), but everybody who is unable to unpack
  EL> .tar.gz/.tgz archives (you did include a pointer to WinZip in
  EL> the documentation, didn't you?) is perhaps not the right person
  EL> to read Python documentation anyway.

(I hope you forgot a <wink> somewhere.)

There is no reason for snobbery.  If some people prefer Zip archives
to gzipped tar files, we should accomodate them.  Python is a good
programming language for everyone, not just people who haved wasted
time and effort to learn about various obscure packaging details.

Jeremy

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