On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Hamish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if we should use bzip2 instead of gzip for the tarballs. > > Simple test with 6.4.0rc2: > > gzip: 19722441 bytes (orig; tar czf) > bzip2: 15997928 bytes (tar cjf) > uncmp: 83MB (du -sh) > > > the cost is longer encoding times (but not so bad), the benefit is > reduced bandwidth.
Easy to change - personally I have no opinion. The question is if bzip2 is nowadays installed by default or not - gzip is... Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
