On 10/05/2012 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Currently, the 3.4.0 source tar.bz2 is around 240 MiB. Providing an xz compressed tarball instead would reduce download size for users who build AOO from source.
I remember making a similar assessment years ago for a variant of the OOo 2.x sources. The license required that we distributed the source code in CD-ROMs (or made it available in other ways, but this was the more straightforward way to comply) and in the end we settled for 7-ZIP.
Indeed, download size for the sources is not a big problem (size of binaries is the issue) but thanks for the analysis: it will be useful if someone wishes to redistribute OpenOffice on CD-ROM and include source code, which as far as I know is optional with the current license.
Regards, Andrea.
