[QGIS-Developer] Better updating for QGIS3?

[Tobias Wendorff]

Hi Tim,

Am Do, 4.01.2018, 18:44 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> BTW I also live in a bandwidth impoverished society and share your
> desire for minimising bandwidth, but short of delta updates (which we
> don't have the resources to implement at the moment) there isn?t
> much room for optimising in my opinion.

I just did a small comparism of what changed between the latest
nightly builds and packed the files with changes only.

While a normal packed nightly release is about 61-65 MB, the changed
files only (no delta) is about 40 MB. So we're saving 25 MB only.
Facebook's zStandard packager can bring the diff to 36 MB (30 MB saving).

Maybe it's better to switch to XZ. It can bring the full release to
40 MB only, while zStandard is 52 MB and bzip2 is 62 MB?

Best regards,
Tobias