Maybe this is slightly off-topic: I keep most of my composite repositories uncompressed. I shamelessly maintain them by hand and with some custom scripts. Hugues
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Ian Bull <[email protected]> wrote: > Most people should be using the zipped format. I'm personally not too > fussed about the uncompressed version, as we have a solution (compress it). > There is at least one good use for the uncompressed version however, and > that's if you are only accessing local repositories (and you have lots of > disk space). In this case, the extra time to unzip the repo might not be > worth it. > > There is another interesting problem with our repositories (and the > duplication of licenses), and that's the amount of garbage we produce when > parsing. While we do use a String pool, we first create separate strings, > then find the duplicates in the pool. I noticed that parsing a 50M > (unzipped) repository took over 200M of heap space. > > cheers, > ian > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Paul Webster < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Dean Roberts >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> So does anybody have an opinion on how widely used uncompressed >>> repositories are? >>> >>> >> I can't comment on other projects, but we took the defaults for PDE build >> in e4 and it looks like we get a content.xml and artifacts.xml, instead of >> the jar. >> >> PW >> >> -- >> Paul Webster >> Hi floor. Make me a sammich! - GIR >> >> _______________________________________________ >> p2-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev >> >> > > > -- > R. Ian Bull | EclipseSource Victoria | +1 250 477 7484 > http://eclipsesource.com | http://twitter.com/eclipsesource > > _______________________________________________ > p2-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev > >
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