Seems like it might be worth it to save 65 MB! The 7z source is small and looks pretty portable.
-M. Hampton On Jul 9, 9:37 am, Harald Schilly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 9, 5:20 pm, Kevin Horton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have tried compressing the sage.*.tar files using gzip and bzip2. > > The compression is insignificant, at least when using the default > > compression levels. > > > % ls -l *tar* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 XXX staff 215244800 Jun 19 08:46 sage-4.0.2.tar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 XXX staff 214183786 Jun 19 08:46 sage-4.0.2.tar.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 XXX staff 215169684 Jun 19 08:46 sage-4.0.2.tar.bz2 > > Out of curiosity I tried to use lzma with "7z" in ubuntu linux to > shrink the included spkgs smaller: > > in $SAGE/spkg/standard/ > > for i in *.spkg; do > echo $i > tar xjf $i > 7z a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on $i.7z ${i%\.spkg} > rm -rf ${i%\.spkg} > done > > result: > ["insgesamt" = total] > > $ du -csh *.spkg | grep insges > 205M insgesamt > $ du -csh *.7z | grep insges > 159M insgesamt > $ echo "159/205" | bc -l > .77560975609756097560 > > but 7z not installed by default and we would have to include the 7z > sources, compile them, and then do the extraction. > > h --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
