From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-02 19:01:36
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:4.3.2.7.2.20021201193120.01e98b08_at_mailhost.esva.net...
> At 03:05 PM 11/29/2002, Pavel Vozenilek wrote:
>
> >Bandwith and time of those with dialup can be saved by compressing Boost
> >release by BZIP2 compressor (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/).
> >
[snip]
> Regardless, thanks for bringing it up. I've been wondering if bzip2 was
> becoming a commonplace format.
>
Statistics for first 15 projects from SourceForge, keyword C++:
Compressed downloadable files:
- ZIP files: 250
- GZ files: 212
- BZIP2 files: 50
No other general purpose compressors were used (there were few Mac specific
files and some RPM).
4 out of 15 projects provided BZIP2 compressed files.
/Pavel