bugArX revision control system - Bugs: bug #10292, Use bzip instead of gzip

 
 

bug #10292: Use bzip instead of gzip

Submitted by:  Walter Landry <landry>
Submitted on:  Tue 07 Sep 2004 02:25:12 AM UTC  
 
Severity: 3 - LowItem Group: None
Status: Wont FixPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed

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Sat 18 Sep 2004 12:12:08 PM UTC, comment #1:

bzip is much, much slower than gzip. In addition, for a whole bunch of small patches, the size difference is neglible.

Walter Landry <landry>
Project Administrator
Tue 07 Sep 2004 02:25:12 AM UTC, original submission:

bzip tends to compress a little better with text. It isn't as well supported as an option to tar, but it is still pretty darn widespread.

Walter Landry <landry>
Project Administrator

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

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