Beta D 2.068.0-b2

Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 26 21:15:05 PDT 2015


On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 20:13:09 +0200, Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> El 26/07/15 a les 15:55, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce ha escrit:
> > BTW, I'd like to phase out the fat 50-60MB combined zip, and add
> > tar.xz/gz for linux/freebsd/osx.
> 
> Is it not better to use 7z format? It has more compression ratios than
> gz/bz2, and they can be easily handled on Windows.

7z and xz are the same compression algorithm (LZMA), but xz works with
tar (it works in streaming mode).

--Ben


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