Ticket UUID: | 961348 | |||
Title: | provide bz2 tarball | |||
Type: | RFE | Version: | None | |
Submitter: | pierre42 | Created on: | 2004-05-27 05:01:21 | |
Subsystem: | 53. Configuration and Build Tools | Assigned To: | dgp | |
Priority: | 2 | Severity: | Minor | |
Status: | Open | Last Modified: | 2016-08-23 14:02:04 | |
Resolution: | None | Closed By: | nobody | |
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Description: |
It would be great if you could provide tarballs in tar.bz2 format too. It takes less space on disk, and is faster to download (lot of people still have modem connections). | |||
User Comments: |
dkf added on 2009-04-05 00:43:24:
No reason why not I suppose; bzip2 seems at least reasonably well distributed. Assigning to release manager for his comments/thoughts. |