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tar and lzma
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:54:30 -0700
- Subject: tar and lzma
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I'm about to upload tar 1.19.90, which adds the --lzma command-line
option. Should I make tar depend on the lzma package?
Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk
on this list a while ago about switching to lzma, instead of bzip2, for
files installed via setup.exe, since it gives the best compression ratios
to decompression speed tradeoff among all the popular open-source
generic-data compression algorithms. The --lzma option only works if lzma
is properly installed.
Arguments against: tar is in the Base category, so the default cygwin
install would grow in size and lzma would graduate to base, even though it
is still relatively new.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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