tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541296000399974369.post3668866350631134060..comments2024-03-09T02:51:27.612-05:00Comments on Peter Eisentraut's Blog: A History of TarballsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849480732923051923noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541296000399974369.post-71955855814793814592009-10-31T13:18:51.221-04:002009-10-31T13:18:51.221-04:00Yeah, zip is actually not bad. In the Linux world...Yeah, zip is actually not bad. In the Linux world, zip tends to reek of Windows, but it actually has its merits.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849480732923051923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541296000399974369.post-66165477371248808472009-10-30T09:48:42.627-04:002009-10-30T09:48:42.627-04:00It's interesting that the archive format hasn&...It's interesting that the archive format hasn't changed much. It's a shame, as the lack of internal compression (forcing you to decompress the entire archive to peek at it) combined with the lack of a TOC (forcing you to seek through the entire archive to derive a list of contents) are serious limitations. I'm tempted to use ZIP only for future releases of my software.Jonhttp://jmtd.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541296000399974369.post-79724018968772361102009-10-30T06:43:25.093-04:002009-10-30T06:43:25.093-04:00Thanks for the heads-up on LZMA. I read some of t...Thanks for the heads-up on LZMA. I read some of the benchmarks and statistics about it, and it appears to be an interesting algorithm. I've written some hypothesis about its energy consumption properties...<br /><br />http://blog.maz.nu/post/227826865/eco-friendly-compression<br /><br />It'd be interesting to see if LZMA is actually a more efficient algorithm than bzip2 when looking at energy costs. I might have to do a benchmark looking at exactly this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541296000399974369.post-19784760437204363602009-10-29T17:55:23.379-04:002009-10-29T17:55:23.379-04:00RPM doesn't require it, but some RPM-based dis...RPM doesn't require it, but some RPM-based distributions require it per their policy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849480732923051923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541296000399974369.post-64609973357709329862009-10-29T17:08:43.762-04:002009-10-29T17:08:43.762-04:00bzip2 is irrelevant, gzip is a golden classic. Why...bzip2 is irrelevant, gzip is a golden classic. Why? Gzip is a really good compromise -- fast with reasonable compression.<br /><br />Bzip2 is just one of the many compressors that try to compress as well as possible. These are obsobleted every few years by the next "large-effort" compressor, and your LZMA example shows that very well.ulrikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04122475678612190855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541296000399974369.post-30481264809492022432009-10-29T17:02:57.169-04:002009-10-29T17:02:57.169-04:00Err.. RPMs don't *require* bzip2.Err.. RPMs don't *require* bzip2.Devrim Gündüzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310074761027270876noreply@blogger.com