[Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

[Wade Berrier]

Hi,

Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :(

Wade

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 06:24 +0900, Atsushi Eno wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think zip archive for text files is much worse than tgz at 
> compression. How was the difference?
> 
> Atsushi Eno
> 
> Wade Berrier wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Several have reported that the tarballs available from
> > mono.ximian.com/daily are not buildable.
> > 
> > This is caused by some limitations of the tar format we're using.  We
> > must use this limited format to support some older distros.
> > 
> > To alleviate this I've begun to use the zip file format for the source
> > distribution instead.  (This is created by running make dist-zip instead
> > of make dist).
> > 
> > monolite and monocharger will remain in tar.gz format, but the source
> > download is in .zip format.
> > 
> > Wade
> > 
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