Timm Preetz a écrit :
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Firmicus wrote:
BTW, nothing beats gzip in terms of speed and memory footprint... But if you need higher rates of compression, then lzma seems to be a great alternative to bzip2.
Yes. And especially for LaTeX packages this seems good. Would probably also make sense to offer big packages as lzma instead of gz, but not sure how big the difference in size really is.
But that few MBs are probably never worth the confusion it would make to offer packages in just another format...
The *sources* for TeXLive 2008 will be offered as tar.lzma archives instead of tar.bz2. This makes a little difference in size, but it does make a big difference in decompression time! Note that this does not affect users, only distro maintainers.