bunzip2 comes by default in Ubuntu bunzip2: I won't read compressed data from a terminal. bunzip2: For help, type: `bunzip2 --help'.
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:31 AM Mark Rotteveel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22-03-2020 20:13, Jiří Činčura wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a reason to keep providing sources in bz2 compression? I did a > quick comparison with 7z compression: > > Firebird-3.0.5.33220-0.7z: 8 230 662 > > Firebird-3.0.5.33220-0.tar.bz2: 9 789 316 > > > > Sure, it's not a huge file either way, but still the improvement is not > insignificant. And given the sources are expected to be used by experienced > users/developers, I don't think using 7z is adding any difficulty. > > > > As far as I know, use of tar and bz2 (bzip2) is relatively standard on > Linux environments, and even the most basic environments usually come > with the necessary tools to extract them. The same cannot be said for > 7zip as far as I'm aware. > > Mark > -- > Mark Rotteveel > > > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel >
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