Postgresql also provides source code in bz2/gz format https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v12.2/
On windows i usually use 7zip so i guess an alternative can be provided if needed On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:44 AM marius adrian popa <map...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 <m...@lawinegevaar.nl> > 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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