"Robin.Hu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix > platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, etc... > > IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good idea.
Why would not use rar or ace instead of zip then? It already almost as much spread as zip is. And twice as small. Gennadiy. P.S. If we have enough space could we simply publish several additional formats? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost