Jürgen Schmidt schrieb: > Hi, > > currently we are preparing 3 src releases packages with the same content. > > For example: > > apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.bz2 -> size 217635696 > apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.gz -> size 287122205 > apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.zip -> size 335796134
xz -9e (maximum compression) apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.xz -> size 155463144 xz -6 (default) apache-openoffice-4.1.0-r1586584-src.tar.xz -> size 189140196 > The first 2 are common in the unix world and the third one in the > windows world. To reduce the used disk space on mirrors and to reduce > uploads etc. I would like to propose that we drop the .tar.gz version > starting with AOO 4.2 or whatever version comes next after AOO 4.1. > > If nobody complains I will execute according the proposal for future > releases. Both gzip and bzip2 are rather inefficient. I suggest to replace gzip with xz for the next release after 4.1 and drop bzip2 for the release after that. See also https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122819 Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
