[Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

[Atsushi Eno]

Hmm... is it difficult to produce both zip and tar.gz (or.bz2) ?

Atsushi Eno

Wade Berrier wrote:
> 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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