Re: [boost] [release] Need help to test new release archives.

On 2016-03-10 00:24, Rene Rivera wrote:

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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A suggestion: maybe we should replace .tar.bz2 with .tar.xz. xz is ubiquitous nowdays and it provides better compression ratio.

Note sure about doing that.. As even the tar.gz version gets plenty of downloads still https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.60.0/. And it would only be close to the size of the 7z. So not much of a gain.

$ bzcat boost_master_969ee704c6f008f3c509ed5e4b7a59a2a2615f35.tar.bz2 | xz >boost_master_969ee704c6f008f3c509ed5e4b7a59a2a2615f35.tar.xz $ ls -la boost_master_969ee704c6f008f3c509ed5e4b7a59a2a2615f35.* -rw-rw-r-- 1 lastique lastique 85430042 Mar 10 00:31 boost_master_969ee704c6f008f3c509ed5e4b7a59a2a2615f35.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 lastique lastique 75138984 Mar 10 00:37 boost_master_969ee704c6f008f3c509ed5e4b7a59a2a2615f35.tar.xz That's 10MB less on default settings. It's still a gain. I mean, what's the downside? PS: Not sure why people would want .tar.gz. I suspect, a large portion of that is generated by scripts/robots noone updated.