Python Frameworks need testing

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Jun 10, 2008, at 07:41, Rainer Müller wrote:
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>>> - any reason you switched to tgz from the tar.bz2 (since that means
>>> another download of the basic same file)?
>>
>> I just wanted to use the same file type for all python ports. I could
>> have switched all to bzip2 as well...
>
> All else being equal we should probably prefer bzip2-compressed files
> to gzip-compressed files because they're smaller.
>

Only the 2.1 and 2.2 major versions don't have bz2 tarballs, so I  
guess the big question is whether it's even possible to do those older  
versions as frameworks in MP.  If not, then the consistency is easy  
for bz2.

Bryan