In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:19:31 -0700, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
dank> openssl.org should consider offering sources in bzip2 format. dank> It would cut download time by 18%: [...] dank> Even winzip can understand tar.bz2 format these days. Ah, the innocence of youth, how I miss it. Let me gently point out that there are more operating systems than Windows and Unixly ones out there. Gnu zip is ported to a majority of them, while bzip2 isn't. As long as I've anything to say in the matter, OpenSSL will at the very least be distributed in .tar.gz form. I've no problem with OpenSSL *also* being distributed in .tar.bz2, as long as noone in the team thinks that will eat too much of our disk space. dank> And to be radical, I should note that some big sites are even dank> swiching solely to bzip2 format. dank> gcc.gnu.org recently even stopped offering downloads in tar.gz dank> format for new releases, and only uses tar.bz2: dank> ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.0.1/ That will only happen when bzip2 has as wide acceptance as gzip. For those running something other than Windows or a Unix flavor (incluging Linux), consider this an invitation to hack away :-). Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
