[GRASS-dev] package tarball with bzip2 instead of gzip?

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Hi,

I wonder if we should use bzip2 instead of gzip for the tarballs.

Simple test with 6.4.0rc2:

gzip: 19722441 bytes (orig; tar czf)
bzip2: 15997928 bytes (tar cjf)
uncmp: 83MB (du -sh)

the cost is longer encoding times (but not so bad), the benefit is
reduced bandwidth.

comments?

Hamish

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

I wonder if we should use bzip2 instead of gzip for the tarballs.

Simple test with 6.4.0rc2:

gzip: 19722441 bytes (orig; tar czf)
bzip2: 15997928 bytes (tar cjf)
uncmp: 83MB (du -sh)

the cost is longer encoding times (but not so bad), the benefit is
reduced bandwidth.

Easy to change - personally I have no opinion. The question is
if bzip2 is nowadays installed by default or not - gzip is...

Markus