[Phpmyadmin-devel] Adding xz to download options

[Michal Čihař]

Dne Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:45:09 +0100
Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com> napsal(a):

> Hi all
> 
> any opinions to provide xz compressed tarballs? It has better
> compression ratio that gzip or bzip2, while it requires similar
> resources for decompression as gzip (and this much less than bzip2).
> 
> The script for creating releases and website is prepared for this, all
> what needs to be done is ensuring that xz-utils are installed on
> system, where relases are being done and enabling it in script creating
> release.
> 
> You can find more information on xz here:
> 
> http://tukaani.org/xz/

PS: You can see size differences on the snapshots, which are already
compressed using xz:

http://cihar.com/software/phpmyadmin/

-- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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