> Stupid question - why does sage use uncompressed tarballs, instead of > something like .tgz. I think a corrupted .tgz couldn't be expanded, > and they would download quicker too.
Almost everything in that tarball is already bz2 compressed (all of the .spkg files) so that there is no benefit in trying to recompress everything together. --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
