Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, etc...
IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good idea. On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:35:35 -0500 Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:05 PM 11/29/2002, Pavel Vozenilek wrote: > > >Bandwith and time of those with dialup can be saved by compressing Boost > >release by BZIP2 compressor (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/). > > > >For example boost_1_29_0.tar.gz has size 5 272 kB, tared and compressed > by > >bzip2 size is 4 282 kB (down to 81%). > > > >Boost size will grow (Spirit lib has over 600kB) and bzip2 can reduce the > > >growth a bit. Bzip2 is available on many platforms, free to use, stable > and > >quite used. > > The .tar.gz format was chosen because a number of users of UNIX-like > systems said that was their preference. > > While there are obvious benefits to switching to a format which yields a > file so much smaller, I'd like to hear from other UNIX/etc users that this > is an acceptable format for them. > > Regardless, thanks for bringing it up. I've been wondering if bzip2 was > becoming a commonplace format. > > --Beman > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
