[GRASS-dev] package tarball with bzip2 instead of gzip?

[Hamish]

Hi,

I wonder if we should use bzip2 instead of gzip for the tarballs.

Simple test with 6.4.0rc2:

gzip:  19722441 bytes  (orig; tar czf) 
bzip2: 15997928 bytes  (tar cjf)
uncmp: 83MB (du -sh)


the cost is longer encoding times (but not so bad), the benefit is
reduced bandwidth.


comments?

Hamish