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Re: distribute xz-compressed tarballs, too?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: distribute xz-compressed tarballs, too?
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:48:09 +0200
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Jim Meyering wrote:
> Have you considered distributing xz-compressed tarballs for gettext?

Thanks for pointing out this compressor. I will use it to compress
the archive used by the 'autopoint' program. Gettext has options to use
'cvs' and 'git' in order to store the multiple versions in a space
saving way. I'm surprised to see that the use of 'xz', even without
'cvs' or 'git', produces a smaller archive than 'cvs' or 'git' with 'gzip':

 16916480   archive.dir.tar
  3528757   archive.dir.tar.gz
  2621440   archive.cvs.tar
  2082492   archive.dir.tar.bz2
   696320   archive.git.tar
   599046   archive.git.tar.bz2
   592989   archive.git.tar.gz
   588124   archive.git.tar.xz
   457190   archive.cvs.tar.gz
   335808   archive.cvs.tar.bz2
   308880   archive.dir.tar.xz
   299124   archive.cvs.tar.xz

Bruno



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