Thanks. That makes sense. But as you see, some people (me) ask why these .tar files are not zipped. I guess, a small note on the webpage would clarify that.
""" The .tar files below contain collections of .spkg files (which are basically .tar.bz2 files). """ Or you put somewhere on that page a link to a .txt file that lists the contents of the .tar file. Some project add a manifest.txt file to the distribution. Just my 1/2 cents. Ralf On 07/09/2009 03:27 PM, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
