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
