[fpc-pascal] a suggestion...

[Florian Klaempfl]

Krishna wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any particular reason for not compressing the release
> tarballs (Linux f.e) with say bzip2 or even 7zip?  The uncompressed
> tarball weighs in around 24M and I'm sure bzipping will reduce it by a
> large margin.

Not really because it is simply a tar ball of several .tar.gz. Because
gzip is spread wider, we use this instead of bzip2/7zip.