[haiku] Re: Download ISO Compression Format
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:22:58 +0100
Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 7z (with ultra compression option) compresses the haiku iso image
> from
> 388MB to 118MB, that is like 50MB less than zip compressed iso
> image(168MB) available on the HTTP/FTP server or through Torrent
> client.
>
> Shouldn't haiku adopt 7z(with ultra compression option) as the default
> compression method for distribution ?
The problem with better compression utilities is often their
availability. Almost every OS can deal with zip files by default, almost
no OS can deal with 7z. We could of course host both archives, but that
would cost more work/space on the maintainer side.
Bye,
Axel.
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