Note that bug 329313 (lack of batching support use) means that compressed 
artifact repos are written and compressed many times during a proivisioning 
operation.  The time to compress is likely smallish (repo files are generally 
small) but still, when you do it hundreds of times in short succession its a 
waste.

Jeff



On 2010-11-21, at 2:56 PM, Pascal Rapicault wrote:

> Uncompressed simple artifact repositories should not be the norm. It happens 
> that some exists because people have not been careful with what they produce.
> I do believe that the default in the publisher is to create compressed simple 
> repositories, but it worth making sure that this still the case.
> 
> As for composite repositories (to answer to Hugues), these are typically 
> small (just reference to others) and are indeed easier to deal with in xml 
> format.
> 
> On 2010-11-17, at 3:49 PM, Dean Roberts wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if this is an issue of just needing better PDE defaults .... and 
>> who would make that change? 
>> 
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>> Paul Webster <[email protected]> 
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>> 
>> 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
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