FYI, lbzip2 is what you probably want, as it *can* decompress a 'stock'
archive faster. From the man page:
"The lbzip2 utility employs multiple threads and an input-bound splitter
even when decompressing .bz2 files created by standard bzip2."
That said, I'm in favor of having a list of valid suff
I just started looking at it. Whew. That is a quite a Portfile. We should
file a ticket to get it to 0.10.0, but as it's nomaintainer, I doubt anyone
will mind you working on it. In fact, I'd encourage it.
—Mark
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Mark E. Anderson
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Craig Trel
On Jan 25, 2015, at 3:27 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Sunday January 25 2015 14:29:01 Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>
>> and how much more time does it take to compress/decompress?
>
> Decompression is not noticeably slower or faster, compression is. I'd say
> that shouldn't be an issue for the bu
On Sunday January 25 2015 14:29:01 Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>
> and how much more time does it take to compress/decompress?
Decompression is not noticeably slower or faster, compression is. I'd say that
shouldn't be an issue for the build bots, and every user can decide for
him/herself whether it
> On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:17 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> To add another observation: the Qt 5.4 archive tarball shrinks by a bit over
> 26% when using xz instead of bzip2:
>
> 6591042 99M -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 99M Jan 12 20:37
> qt5-mac-devel-5.4.0_1+KDE.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2
> 8507590 73
On Tuesday January 20 2015 13:20:03 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
To add another observation: the Qt 5.4 archive tarball shrinks by a bit over
26% when using xz instead of bzip2:
6591042 99M -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 99M Jan 12 20:37
qt5-mac-devel-5.4.0_1+KDE.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2
8507590 73M -rw-r
