To compress or to gzip, that's the question...

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:05:01 +0100

In order to save both net bandwidth and disk space, I would like to
start using GNU zip (gzip) instead of 'compress' for compression of
all but the smallest files in the Python ftp archive. This can save
roughly one third on the compressed file size.

However, I do not want to make it any more difficult to get Python.
Keeping both the compressed (.Z) and gzipped (.gz) files is impossible
since our ftp server is already at 99% of its disk space.

So, the question is... Does anybody have objections *based upon
personal experience* against gzip? Please reply to me personally,
don't clutter the mailing list with a discussion of this issue. I
will summarize the conclusion. If you are *for* gzip, you don't need
to reply.

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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