[boost] Re: Boost release compressed by bzip2

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-01 22:40:30

"Robin.Hu" <huxw_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:20021202110427.1E4F.HUXW_at_knight.6test.edu.cn...
> Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix
> platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, etc...
>
> IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good idea.

Why would not use rar or ace instead of zip then? It already almost as much
spread as zip is. And twice as small.

Gennadiy.

P.S. If we have enough space could we simply publish several additional
formats?