Hi all,
here is a report on compressing Graph-Easy-0.70.tar with various
compression methods:
{{{
shlomif:~/progs/perl/cpan/Graph/Easy/trunk/Graph-Easy/TEMP$ ls -l
total 3420
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 2160640 Nov 14 22:20 Graph-Easy-0.70.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 329197 Nov 5 12:24 Graph-Easy-0.70.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 416916 Nov 14 22:23 Graph-Easy-0.70.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 270796 Nov 14 22:21 Graph-Easy-0.70.tar.lrz
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 312844 Nov 5 12:24 Graph-Easy-0.70.tar.xz
}}}
As one can see, there are significant savings in size (and bandwidth)
by switching to .bz2 and .xz. .lrz (see
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/ ) yields even more in its ZPaq
preset, but at the cost of longer compression and even decompression
times, so it's not preferable. My question is:
1. Will the CPAN testing and downloading toolchian will handle modules
uploaded as .tar.bz2? (Allow to install them, unpack them, etc.) How
about tar.xz.
2. Can I easily pack archives into tar.bz2 or tar.xz using
Module-Build and/or Module-Install ?
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
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Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/
Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done
that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much.
