Hi Antonio, I am forwarding your request to the grep development mailing list for consideration. Whether lzipped tarball of grep are release will depend of the feedback I receive from the community. Particularly, if there is demand for them then I'm personally in favour.
Thanks for putting this forward and the detailed info. Cheers, TAA -- Tony Abou-Assaleh, PhD Email: [email protected] Web site: http://tony.abou-assaleh.net LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tabouasssaleh Twitter: http://twitter.com/tony_aa Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Hello, > > Would you accept a lzipped tarball of grep to be distributed along > with the gzipped one? The size savings are about 30% and 16% with > respect to gzip and bzip2. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 antonio users 860636 2009-02-10 17:07 grep-2.5.4.tar.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 antonio users 723181 2009-02-10 17:07 grep-2.5.4.tar.bz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 antonio users 606033 2009-02-10 17:07 grep-2.5.4.tar.lz > > Or if you prefer to make it yourself, lzip can be found here: > http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/ > http://packages.debian.org/sid/lzip > > > Also, by using zgrep from zutils[1][2], I hope you can avoid bloating > grep with decompression code[3] and non-standard options. > [1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/zutils.html > [2] http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/zutils-0.1.tar.gz > [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2008-04/msg00016.html > > > Regards, > Antonio.
