On 22-03-2020 20:13, Jiří Činčura wrote:
Hi,
is there a reason to keep providing sources in bz2 compression? I did a quick
comparison with 7z compression:
Firebird-3.0.5.33220-0.7z: 8 230 662
Firebird-3.0.5.33220-0.tar.bz2: 9 789 316
Sure, it's not a huge file either way, but still the improvement is not
insignificant. And given the sources are expected to be used by experienced
users/developers, I don't think using 7z is adding any difficulty.
As far as I know, use of tar and bz2 (bzip2) is relatively standard on
Linux environments, and even the most basic environments usually come
with the necessary tools to extract them. The same cannot be said for
7zip as far as I'm aware.
Mark
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