[sawfish] Re: Future releases as tar.bz2 and tar.xz

[Eli Barzilay <eli barzilay org>]

On Jan 18, Allan Duncan wrote:
> On 18/01/10 07:59, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > nothing special, just some news:
> >
> > all future releases will be available as tar.bz2 and tar.xz.
> > XZ is also known as LZMA2 and has a much better compression than bz2.
> >
> > For example Sawfish 1.6.1:
> >
> > du -h sawfish-1.6.1.tar.{xz,bz2}
> > 2,4M sawfish-1.6.1.tar.xz
> > 3,6M sawfish-1.6.1.tar.bz2
> >
> > So this is -30%, which helps saving bandwith and stuff. Though not
> > necessary for most people, but in non-industrial countries (or in
> > non-urban regions) there are a lot people who can't access DSL (and
> > flatrates).
> 
> Of course the compression comes at a cost - it really chews CPU
> time.

It makes perfect sense for downloads -- it looks like it's usually
faster to uncompress than bzipped files.


> For those using GNU tar, the man page is less than helpful, use:
>      tar --xz -cf <archive.tar.xz> <source>
> If there is an abbreviated option I can't see it.

`j'

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