From: Brian Wolven <bcwolven_at_jhu.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:51:30 -0400

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hey
>
> As of a while ago I changed the way source tarballs are generated, so we
> no longer use the FILES files.
>
> Starting now, the tarballs include a full svn repository (including the
> manual subdir) and they will be 7zip compressed.
>
> The uncompressed size is roughly 100MB, and it is roughly 16MB when
> 7zipped right now. I selected 7zip instead of bzip2 simply because 7zip
> made the output 2MB smaller than 7zip!
>

Patch 0000 - Halt recursive zipping

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< 2MB smaller than 7zip!

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 > 2MB smaller than bzip2!

Received on 2008-03-26