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

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

On 18/01/10 11:45, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 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'

Nope, 'j' is for bz2