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

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Need help to test new release archives.
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-03-09 16:24:47

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
wrote:
>
> 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.

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