> From: David Allan [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > > I think that if you are sending files to another person, it is much > more > > important that he/she have the decompression software than that the > file > > be small. At least that is what I feel when I receive a file. It is > part > > of "be conservative in what you send", etc. > > I agree with this logic, and I'd extend it a bit to say use the > algorithm > that makes sense for the task. If I'm just compressing something > trivial > to mail to someone, I use gzip--it's fast, everybody pretty much has it > now, and the compression ratio is acceptable. If I'm archiving > something > huge that I really don't intend to decompress more than once or twice, > then I'm going to use the maximum ratio I can find, with the caveat > that I > only use FOSS for this stuff partly because I'm a FOSS guy, but mostly > because I don't want to run the risk of having the tool unavailable > when I > want the data back. Or maybe it's data that I'd need to get back in a > hurry because a need to recover would only happen during system > downtime > so decompression time is relevant...lots of parameters...
I also agree with this, and for the same reasons. For what it's worth, 7-zip and lzma are both LGPL and GPL. I've already installed it on all my servers, and had no difficulty at all obtaining precompiled binaries. So I'm a convert. I'm totally in favor of lzma now. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
