On 2020-03-23 10:30, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
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.
Agree that 7zip is not best choice for posix systems. Linux
implementation p7zip had no new releases (and github commits) since 2016.
If we want to have better compression xz is much better choice -
standard linux tool (format is used by kernel.org) with very good
compression:
8 174 952 Firebird-3.0.5.33220-0.tar.xz
But telling true I do not see big use in it - I'm sure that 1.5Mb make
absolutely no difference. Only as a form of following mainline :-)
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