On Jan 1, 2008 7:19 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 1, 2008 3:47 PM, Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I remember 7-Zip planets being provided in the past, what was the reason > > for removing them? > > Nobody used them. (With a "handful" rounded down to "nobody") > > One major issue is that people don't decompress the planet anymre, but > instead work on the compressed version directly. This means you need > libraries to read/write them programmatically. Does lzma have such a > library? Most scripts in SVN can handle GZ and BZ2 files direcly, but > who is volunteering to fix all the scripts to work with 7z? > > Also, every linux system has bz2, but barely any have 7z, and I doubt > people are going to install a new compression program for just saving > a few bytes and losing a lot of functionality. > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/
If some of the main tools such as Osmosis and/or JOSM were extended to use it, it might get more use. I'm sure there's some open-source 7z Java library somewhere, similar to the bz2 library already used in Osmosis. Then it could be used without requiring client machines to install new tools. A 33% savings over bz2 is significant, but the tripled compression time might be an issue. Karl _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
