[ros-dev] Ros 0.2.6-RC2 on sf.net

[Robert Köpferl]

I do always select highest compression.
My processor time saves manny others download time.

The thing with zip is that it doesn't support solid archives. You can 
imagine as doing a tar and then zipping that. What all zip-packers do is 
they zip every file and then tar tehm together.
So in this 'special' case where text (cointiuous text) is compressed, 
RAR gives much better results.
Said that, also 7zip or tar.bz2 should be on the same level as RAR.

Jason Filby wrote:
> What about compression options? Have you tried zipping with the
> highest compression level? Either way I think we should keep zip (for
> its popularity) but perhaps add rar if it really does offer much
> better compression.
> 
> Cheers
> Jason
> 
> On Apr 3, 2005 7:36 PM, Magnus Olsen <magnus at itkonsult-olsen.com> wrote:
> 
>>RAR compress alot better that zip in most case.
> 
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