Hi GNU GCC folks, I was idly looking through a couple of snapshots of the gcc -trunk line. I am by no means a compiler developer, but I did notice that you aren't using lzma for compression. I don't know if bandwidth is at all a concern, but I can point to a >20% drop in download size:
$ svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk gcc-trunk ... $ find gcc-trunk -name ".svn" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf $ tar -cf - gcc-trunk | lzma --best > gcc-trunk.tlz & $ tar -cf - gcc-trunk | bzip2 --best > gcc-trunk.tbz & $ wait $ ls -lh gcc-trunk.t?z -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin kevin 58M 2010-01-12 18:44 gcc-trunk.tbz -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin kevin 46M 2010-01-12 18:41 gcc-trunk.tlz lzma takes about 6 times as long, but on my machine it takes just over 7 minutes, which I'd say is reasonable: $ tar -cf - mygcc | \ > pv -cN i -s 402m | \ > lzma --best | \ > pv -cN o > gcc-trunk.tlz i: 402MB 0:07:09 [ 958kB/s] [===============>] 100% o: 45.1MB 0:07:10 [ 107kB/s] [ <=> ] Anyhoo, since lzma is available on most distros now, I thought I'd proffer it as a suggestion to y'all. G'day, Kevin
