bug#919: distributions in lzma or bz2?

bug#919: distributions in lzma or bz2?

[Karl Berry]

emacs-22.3.tar.gz is       39587396 bytes.
Compressed with lzma, it's 26752360 bytes.
(I didn't check bzip2, presumably it's somewhere in between.)

That could be a lot of download bandwidth saved.  How about making it
available both ways, at least for next time?  (= install lzma-utils from
http://tukaani.org/lzma/download and add dist-lzma to the automake
options.)

Best,
karl

bug#919: marked as done (distributions in lzma or bz2?)

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From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: bug-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: distributions in lzma or bz2?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:48:33 -0500
Message-ID: <200809071848.m87ImXL08116@f7.net>

emacs-22.3.tar.gz is       39587396 bytes.
Compressed with lzma, it's 26752360 bytes.
(I didn't check bzip2, presumably it's somewhere in between.)

That could be a lot of download bandwidth saved.  How about making it
available both ways, at least for next time?  (= install lzma-utils from
http://tukaani.org/lzma/download and add dist-lzma to the automake
options.)

Best,
karl




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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Cc: 919-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: distributions in lzma or bz2?
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:37:21 -0400
Message-ID: <87prnfae0u.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

> emacs-22.3.tar.gz is       39587396 bytes.
> Compressed with lzma, it's 26752360 bytes.
> (I didn't check bzip2, presumably it's somewhere in between.)
>
> That could be a lot of download bandwidth saved.  How about making it
> available both ways, at least for next time?  (= install lzma-utils
> from http://tukaani.org/lzma/download and add dist-lzma to the
> automake

OK, I've made a not to do that.

bug#919: distributions in lzma or bz2?

[Stefan Monnier]

> emacs-22.3.tar.gz is       39587396 bytes.
> Compressed with lzma, it's 26752360 bytes.
> (I didn't check bzip2, presumably it's somewhere in between.)

lzma would make sense indeed.  It does seem to be the next standard
(contrary to bzip2 whose performance advantage over gzip wasn't enough
to replace it).


        Stefan