Hello!
For many years we have provided the curl release tarball using these four
different file formats/compression methods: zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2 and tar.xz.
Recently a Windows oriented user asked us why we don't offer a higher
compression version than zip, like for example 7zip. I presume Windows people
typically avoid the tar files?
I did a little experiment just now and made a fake release out of the current
master and compared the output file sizes, including 7zip.
2702791 7z
2745360 tar.xz
3208971 tar.bz2
4157489 tar.gz
6560470 zip
(size in number of bytes)
Is it time to start providing a .7z version of the releases?
If so, is it also perhaps time to retire maybe the tar.bz2 version (if we
consider the tar.gz and zip ones to be the more legacy and stable formats) ?
Thoughts?
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