Krishna wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any particular reason for not compressing the release > tarballs (Linux f.e) with say bzip2 or even 7zip? The uncompressed > tarball weighs in around 24M and I'm sure bzipping will reduce it by a > large margin.
Not really because it is simply a tar ball of several .tar.gz. Because gzip is spread wider, we use this instead of bzip2/7zip. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
