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Quote from: gigitrix on June 19, 2011, 10:10:34 AM

Quote from: bcearl on June 18, 2011, 06:27:11 AM

Quote from: wumpus on June 18, 2011, 06:21:28 AM

A lot of people don't know how to handle .xz though, so you'd still have to offer both choices in that case.

I'm not sure how much bandwidth of the download site is a problem at the moment.

On every linux distribution not older than 5 years there should be no difference for the user at all.

Bitcoin is not just linux.

You are not listening.
He is only talking about the linux package, not windows/macos.

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Quote from: bcearl on June 18, 2011, 06:27:11 AM

Quote from: wumpus on June 18, 2011, 06:21:28 AM

A lot of people don't know how to handle .xz though, so you'd still have to offer both choices in that case.

I'm not sure how much bandwidth of the download site is a problem at the moment.

On every linux distribution not older than 5 years there should be no difference for the user at all.

Bitcoin is not just linux.

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Quote from: Yeti on June 18, 2011, 04:00:53 PM

Lempel-Ziv-Markov FTW!!!1!!1!

Use .tar.lzma or .tar.7z!

Why not .tar.rar or something even more bizarre?

everybody else (estimated 99.99999%) is using either tar.gz or tar.bz2 nowadays. Everything else would be interpreted as harassment by the majority of users.

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Lempel-Ziv-Markov FTW!!!1!!1!

Use .tar.lzma or .tar.7z!

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This is a terrible idea. Stick with gz.

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on June 18, 2011, 01:19:12 PM

Nonsense. How many distributions include a xz decompressor by default? Even if you can figure out what to install easily, what command is used to extract? I'm not aware of GNU Tar including an option for xz yet...

GNU tar supports it since 1.22, according to german wikipedia. Ubuntu 11.04 comes with 1.25. The man page seems to indicate -J for .tar.xz.

Although I didn't know that .tar.xz exists, my test download worked like a charm: firefox offered to open the file in file-roller. file-roller displayed the contents. no problems. (using file from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php )

Also,

Code:

tar xvf phpMyAdmin-3.4.2-all-languages.tar.xz

works as expected.

I guess I'm a tar.xz fan now! Grin

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bzip2 should be a more sane replacement for gzip.

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Quote from: bcearl on June 18, 2011, 06:27:11 AM

Quote from: wumpus on June 18, 2011, 06:21:28 AM

A lot of people don't know how to handle .xz though, so you'd still have to offer both choices in that case.

I'm not sure how much bandwidth of the download site is a problem at the moment.

On every linux distribution not older than 5 years there should be no difference for the user at all.

Nonsense. How many distributions include a xz decompressor by default? Even if you can figure out what to install easily, what command is used to extract? I'm not aware of GNU Tar including an option for xz yet...

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Quote from: wumpus on June 18, 2011, 06:21:28 AM

A lot of people don't know how to handle .xz though, so you'd still have to offer both choices in that case.

I'm not sure how much bandwidth of the download site is a problem at the moment.

On every linux distribution not older than 5 years there should be no difference for the user at all.

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No Maps for These Territories

A lot of people don't know how to handle .xz though, so you'd still have to offer both choices in that case.

I'm not sure how much bandwidth of the download site is a problem at the moment.

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It will push archive size of 0.3.23 (for linux) from 11 M to 6.5 M. This results in 41 % smaller size (and thus traffic).

It still decompress faster, only compressing takes a little longer.

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