Re: [boost] Boost release compressed by bzip2

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-01 19:35:35

At 03:05 PM 11/29/2002, Pavel Vozenilek wrote:

 >Bandwith and time of those with dialup can be saved by compressing Boost
 >release by BZIP2 compressor (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/).
 >
 >For example boost_1_29_0.tar.gz has size 5 272 kB, tared and compressed 
by
 >bzip2 size is 4 282 kB (down to 81%).
 >
 >Boost size will grow (Spirit lib has over 600kB) and bzip2 can reduce the 

 >growth a bit. Bzip2 is available on many platforms, free to use, stable 
and
 >quite used.

The .tar.gz format was chosen because a number of users of UNIX-like 
systems said that was their preference.

While there are obvious benefits to switching to a format which yields a 
file so much smaller, I'd like to hear from other UNIX/etc users that this 
is an acceptable format for them.

Regardless, thanks for bringing it up.  I've been wondering if bzip2 was 
becoming a commonplace format.

--Beman