Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

[dhudes]

The savings for going to .bz2 over .gz for source code are fairly
insignificant.  We're talking about source code for a perl module.  Is
your stuff tens of megabytes in size? That's a lot of code if so. I could
understand if you were distributing a sizable database with your code but
source code, even 100KLOC? Once you go to .gz you're already at better
than 2:1. What are you going to save by going to even 3:1, 10Kbytes?
compared to the nuisance inflicted, it's nothing.