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
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