bazaar 1.0rc3 (final candidate)

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Tue Dec 11 15:29:04 GMT 2007


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Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> (For 1.1 and following I'd like to work on improving the release
>> process, to have less manual steps in both making the tarball and
>> publishing the release to the world...)
> 
> What about .tar.bz2s? It would save a few hundred KB.

Well, if you do that, why not LZMA compressed, which is usually even better.

I think the biggest reason is that .bz2 isn't usually sufficiently better than
.gz to justify itself. I know for a long time there were platforms that didn't
have bz2 well integrated with tar, or that different platforms were different.
(I think Red Hat was -I, others were -j, etc.)

Anyway, it seems okay to create a .bz2. But I'm not sure that it is really
worthwhile.

For Windows, at least, using 7zip to generate a self-extracting LZMA compressed
stream can be a big benefit. I've seen it do wonders on pre-compiled Boost
libraries (but that is because all the template code probably is repeated in
every lib, and boost builds about 4 variants based on different compiler
settings [threading, debug, etc]).

John
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