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Re: tar and lzma
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:07:43 -0800
- Subject: Re: tar and lzma
- References: <47C781F6.9040608@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
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