Subject: Re: commit -- *please read* switch hash files from zip to gzip
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 08:40:40 CDT
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> Yes but for developers working where their connection to the world
> is not a high speed on, then having these compressed versions sure
> was nice so save on the download time. The fact that they are
> compressed doesn't mean anything to the end user in the installation
> you are right, but the people taking them out of CVS will notice
> the difference.
>
Paradoxically, this will make transfers *faster* for people. First, if
you are just downloading the abidistfile.tar.gz, it's already zipped. And
if you are updating it from CVS, it only has to download the changed
sections. Whereas, if the files are zipped in CVS, they have to be marked
as binary, and then any change to them requires your CVS client to
redownload the whole file. So this should make life faster for everyone.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam
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