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Re: tar and lzma


Eric Blake wrote:

> 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.

This would also allow the new automake dist-lzma to function.

> 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.

I'm all for fighting bloat, but we're talking about 68KB extra to
download and ~150KB extra disk space, so I don't think it's too big of a
deal.

Brian


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