[fpc-pascal] Re: a suggestion...

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Thu May 25 12:43:08 CEST 2006


Adrian Maier wrote:
> On 25/05/06, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
>> >> Because gzip is spread wider, we use this instead of bzip2/7zip.
>> >
>> > I think the size saved by compressing FPC with bz2 would be much
>> > greater than the size of downloading and installing a bzip2 extractor.
>>
>> Yes, but it requires extra work :)
> 
> What do you think about having two archives, to make everyone happy  :
> one compressed with gzip ( for those concerned about compatibility)
> and one compressed with bzip2  (for those concerned about the size) ?

Extra work for us :) We're already overloaded when doing releases.



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