[PROPOSAL]: drop tar.gz source release, 1 of 3 formats
Hi, currently we are preparing 3 src releases packages with the same content. For example: apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.bz2 - size 217635696 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.gz - size 287122205 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.zip - size 335796134 The first 2 are common in the unix world and the third one in the windows world. To reduce the used disk space on mirrors and to reduce uploads etc. I would like to propose that we drop the .tar.gz version starting with AOO 4.2 or whatever version comes next after AOO 4.1. If nobody complains I will execute according the proposal for future releases. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL]: drop tar.gz source release, 1 of 3 formats
Hi, On 15.04.2014 13:01, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi, currently we are preparing 3 src releases packages with the same content. For example: apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.bz2 - size 217635696 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.gz - size 287122205 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.zip - size 335796134 The first 2 are common in the unix world and the third one in the windows world. To reduce the used disk space on mirrors and to reduce uploads etc. I would like to propose that we drop the .tar.gz version starting with AOO 4.2 or whatever version comes next after AOO 4.1. If nobody complains I will execute according the proposal for future releases. +1 for dropping one of two packages. I am not sure, if the dropped one should be the *.tar.gz one as our current full installation packages for Linux provided for the convenience of our users are *.tar.gz files. But may be this is not relevant as the target audience for the source release and full installation packages are different. Best regards, Oliver. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL]: drop tar.gz source release, 1 of 3 formats
Jürgen Schmidt schrieb: Hi, currently we are preparing 3 src releases packages with the same content. For example: apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.bz2 - size 217635696 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.gz - size 287122205 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.zip - size 335796134 xz -9e (maximum compression) apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.xz - size 155463144 xz -6 (default) apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.xz - size 189140196 The first 2 are common in the unix world and the third one in the windows world. To reduce the used disk space on mirrors and to reduce uploads etc. I would like to propose that we drop the .tar.gz version starting with AOO 4.2 or whatever version comes next after AOO 4.1. If nobody complains I will execute according the proposal for future releases. Both gzip and bzip2 are rather inefficient. I suggest to replace gzip with xz for the next release after 4.1 and drop bzip2 for the release after that. See also https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122819 Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL]: drop tar.gz source release, 1 of 3 formats
On 4/15/14 1:57 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Jürgen Schmidt schrieb: Hi, currently we are preparing 3 src releases packages with the same content. For example: apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.bz2 - size 217635696 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.gz - size 287122205 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.zip - size 335796134 xz -9e (maximum compression) apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.xz - size 155463144 xz -6 (default) apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.xz - size 189140196 The first 2 are common in the unix world and the third one in the windows world. To reduce the used disk space on mirrors and to reduce uploads etc. I would like to propose that we drop the .tar.gz version starting with AOO 4.2 or whatever version comes next after AOO 4.1. If nobody complains I will execute according the proposal for future releases. Both gzip and bzip2 are rather inefficient. I suggest to replace gzip with xz for the next release after 4.1 and drop bzip2 for the release after that. See also https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122819 xz compression is better but not so common, I am not sure. At Apache tar.gz is most common and tar.bz2 as well. But I have not seen tar.xz And I want drop one and don't replace one. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL]: drop tar.gz source release, 1 of 3 formats
Jürgen Schmidt schrieb: On 4/15/14 1:57 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Both gzip and bzip2 are rather inefficient. I suggest to replace gzip with xz for the next release after 4.1 and drop bzip2 for the release after that. See also https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122819 xz compression is better but not so common, I am not sure. At Apache tar.gz is most common and tar.bz2 as well. But I have not seen tar.xz xz is present in all modern Linux distributions and FreeBSD. It is also available on Solaris 5.11 as pkg://solaris/compress/xz (but not installed by default I think). And I want drop one and don't replace one. Going from zip+gzip+bzip2 to zip+xz will drop two and add one. And it will reduce download size for users who build from source by several dozen MB. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL]: drop tar.gz source release, 1 of 3 formats
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, currently we are preparing 3 src releases packages with the same content. For example: apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.bz2 - size 217635696 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.gz - size 287122205 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.zip - size 335796134 The first 2 are common in the unix world and the third one in the windows world. To reduce the used disk space on mirrors and to reduce uploads etc. I would like to propose that we drop the .tar.gz version starting with AOO 4.2 or whatever version comes next after AOO 4.1. If nobody complains I will execute according the proposal for future releases. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org As this will only apply to source release packages, I think your proposal is fine. -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
Re: [PROPOSAL]: drop tar.gz source release, 1 of 3 formats
Am 04/15/2014 01:01 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: currently we are preparing 3 src releases packages with the same content. For example: apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.bz2 - size 217635696 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.gz - size 287122205 apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.zip - size 335796134 The first 2 are common in the unix world and the third one in the windows world. To reduce the used disk space on mirrors and to reduce uploads etc. I would like to propose that we drop the .tar.gz version starting with AOO 4.2 or whatever version comes next after AOO 4.1. If nobody complains I will execute according the proposal for future releases. +1 I don't know which one but maybe someone knows a survey where .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 is the favorite. Or we can just decide from download numbers. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
