wouldn't tarball snapshots be nice to have?

[Thiago Macieira]

Kuba Ober wrote:
>> However, often a user with limited internet access wants to get the
>> latest version of some app which fixes some bugs he can't work
>> around. Like if he has KDE 3.4.1 and then there is KDE 3.4.2 and he
>> only needs KPDF from it, but downloading the whole KDE is very hard
>> for him and getting via SVN means that in plain codes you need to
>> download 10x more than if it was a tarball.
>
>AFAIK, svn works with compressed ssh just fine. I presume it's supposed
> to handle compressed http as well. Maybe whatever web server you use to
> sync with is not providing gzip/zlib compression?

True, but the compression is not always enabled on the server because the 
load goes too high. Dirk had to turn it off on the main server just after 
the switch because it was getting no one anywhere.

And, besides, a compressed transfer will be gzip factor 3 or so, while a 
tarball will be bzipped2 factor 9. There's a big difference in size, not 
to mention the Subversion overhead.

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