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

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

Easy to change - personally I have no opinion. The question is
if bzip2 is nowadays installed by default or not - gzip is...

Markus