Icons tarball is .gz compressed

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Icons tarball is .gz compressed #7

Closed ximion closed 10 years ago

ximion commented 10 years ago

The spec say that tarball should be xz compressed.

hughsie commented 10 years ago

It does? compressing .png files is only slightly worthwhile.

ximion commented 10 years ago

At least for Debian - for some reason, people are worried a lot about space there (and since this thing will only be uncompressed once, the increase in CPU usage shouldn't be a big deal). The XDG AppStream spec doesn say much about compression, it just says where the files should be decompressed to (how that happens is in the hand of the distributor).

hughsie commented 10 years ago

3.9M arch-icons.tar 3.3M arch-icons.tar.gz 3.1M arch-icons.tar.xz

That's a whole lot of CPU time just to save 200Kb.

ximion commented 10 years ago

Agreed - I just did the same measurement (although -9 gets a bit more out of it). We should stay with .gz then, and I will convince the relevant people :) Thanks!