Hi, Currently, the 3.4.0 source tar.bz2 is around 240 MiB. Providing an xz compressed tarball instead would reduce download size for users who build AOO from source.
Informal comparison between different compressors: 1697468416 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar 251417600 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.bz2 207922176 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.xz-6e 199165952 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.xz-7e 190512128 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.xz-8e 187145216 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.xz-9e 168845312 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.zpaq-m3-b256 168816640 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.zpaq-m3 159088640 aoo-3.4.0-incubating-src.tar.zpaq-m4-b256 ZPAQ compresses even better, but compression/decompression is very slow. It seems that xz -8e would be a good compromise between CPU/memory usage and compression ratio. It results in a 24% smaller size compared to bzip2 -9. Do you agree or have suggestions/concerns? Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn