James
James
Sounds good, don't hesitate to open new tickets for any further question or comment, thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for telling. I think this might be a duplicate to: https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/52 We never worked on this feature because a preliminary attempt showed that this will be very complicated from...
Yes, you are right. Basically the underlying problem is the same, once provided support for LZMA in conan, such issue #52 would be trivial.
I wouldn't oppose to have a branch with it, see how it looks like, and think if there is some way to guarantee 100% that it won't be possible to...
Yes, I agree, we could start preparing for the future.
We might want to use zstd compression, it is 6 times faster to decompress: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/zstd/dev/doc/images/DSpeed3.png Thanks @tru and @sztomi
@SSE4 could you please put in your backlog do a small profiling experiment of the different compressions? Not urgent, but something we would like to close for Conan 2.0 -...
Good work @SSE4 My conclusions so far: - Bzip2 and Lzma are not competitive. They can have great ratios, but are really slow in compressing and decompressing, so not an...
@SSE4 Knowing the location of the ``zstd`` in the system is still not enough, and would require a very big development effort. If anything, the approach would be more in...
Not completely true, for example the timestamps thing is managed in the gz layer, not the tar level (``gzopen_without_timestamps()``) And then we are using the builtin tarextract python functionality that...