On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:12:27PM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Hmmmm... looking at > ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/misc/sage/src/index.html > I wonder why these files are not zipped. > Shouldn't gzip, bzip2, 7zip be just fine? > > What is the rationale behind distributing unzipped tar files?
The source tarball is basically a collection of .spkg files, which are actually .tar.bz2 files. Since all the large files inside the tarball are already compressed, compressing the main tarball would not shrink it much, if at all. -Willem Jan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
