From c8c95eea69085e4854e86df9db9e77bd9ea9a8fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Clark Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:38:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] In the release guide, mention the AdvanceCOMP can compress gzip files better. It's an option release managers (on *nix) might want to be aware of. --- Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index be55bcf..cff0d23 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -646,6 +646,19 @@ your changes were all committed, you can override the suffix with: XXX if we go for extra tags and branches stuff, then add the extra details here +Optionally, you might want to compress your tarball more. Unix F +doesn't actually produce the smallest possible DEFLATE output. If you have the +AdvanceCOMP suite (e.g. the C port on macports), you can run + + $ advdef -z -4 ../perl-x.y.z-RC1.tar.gz + +which will probably shrink your tarball by about 5%. Over the lifetime of +your distribution this will save a lot of people a small amount of download +time and disk space, which adds up. + +(7-Zip on Windows is the same code as AdvanceCOMP, so Windows users get the +smallest files first time) + =item * Clean up the temporary directory, e.g. -- 1.8.3.1