"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 03:05 PM 11/29/2002, Pavel Vozenilek wrote: > > >Bandwith and time of those with dialup can be saved by compressing Boost > >release by BZIP2 compressor (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/). > > [snip] > Regardless, thanks for bringing it up. I've been wondering if bzip2 was > becoming a commonplace format. > Statistics for first 15 projects from SourceForge, keyword C++:
Compressed downloadable files: - ZIP files: 250 - GZ files: 212 - BZIP2 files: 50 No other general purpose compressors were used (there were few Mac specific files and some RPM). 4 out of 15 projects provided BZIP2 compressed files. /Pavel _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
