Hamish wrote: > fwiw, I notice bzip2 makes a remarkable difference to the file size. I > wonder if we should switch to it from gzip? (same for the main source > tarball although I haven't looked at the size difference for that)
bzip2 started displacing gzip about a decade ago for situations where compression was more important than compatibility. Currently, the transition is from bzip2 to LZMA. .xz is the standard Unix LZMA container; .lzma is an older version. .7z (7zip) also uses LZMA, but it's a complete compression-and-archive format (like .zip or .rar), while .xz and .lzma are compression-only (like .gz or .bz2). -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
