My plea would be for all of that :-) and also to split the download into
a number of checksummed smaller chunks. At least then any corruption
doesn't mean a complete download again.
Cheers,
Wilf
...and thanks for all the good work!
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> From: Artur Biesiadowski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 31 May 1998 18:37
> To: Java-Linux
> Subject: Size of releases - compression/deltas
>
> I'm probably not only person with slow, not reliable inet connection.
> Any way to reduce download size of jdks would be very nice. I think
> about two things:
> 1) Use bzip2 instead of gzip. It is normally about 20% smaller (it
> counts whith files > 10MB). Of course gzip is more popular, but
> providing either link or bzip binaries wouldn't be a great problem. Or
> if space allows distribute both .gz and .bz2 versions.
>
> 2) Use xdelta (from ftp://scam.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/jmacd)
> It generates binary diffs between archive files - I suppose that it
> could be very efficient for small version differences - ie from
> 1.1.5-v6
> to 1.1.5-v7. Could somebody with access to all these jdks make tests
> and
> report it ? Maybe even cross versions could be done (1.1.5 to 1.1.6).
>
> Artur
>
> P.S.
> I would be personally interested in xdeltas of jdk - I do have
> linux-jdk.1.1.3-v2.tar.gz size 9093801
> Can somebody make xdeltas to one of new releases (newest 1.1.5 or
> 1.1.6)
> and report their sizes/mail them to me if smaller than 2-3 MB ?
>
