On Fri, November 19, 2010 2:18 pm, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: > 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.
Over the entire CPAN archive, it'd be significant... I agree on the individual case it's probably not worth worrying about too much. But if it's easy to use .bz2 or something better it wouldn't hurt to get that word out. (And it may be worth making it easy, though I'm not sure about that.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
