[caiman-discuss] Dwarf Caiman Installer - some thoughts

[Sarah Jelinek]

Dave Miner wrote:
> Sarah Jelinek wrote:
>>
>> Al Hopper wrote:
>>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Dave Miner wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> andrewk9 wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>> I suppose the installer is slightly faster than the old one in that
>>>>> there isn't a long pause while it loads Java. I guess the slowness in
>>>>> the actual install phase is down to using bzip2 compression on the
>>>>> install media.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>> Actual installation time should be no different than previously, 
>>>> because
>>>> we're still using the same media and installation engine underneath 
>>>> the
>>>> new GUI.
>>>>     
>>> Is the plan, going forward, to eliminate the bzip2 compression and 
>>> replace it with gzip?
>>> bzip2 is too CPU resource intensive for the small improvement 
>>> achieved IMHO.
>>>
>>>   
>> Yes, actually we are. I was just talking with jan setje-eilers about 
>> this. You must have read my mind :-).
>>
>
> The Slim Install CD doesn't use bzip2 for the things it compresses, it 
> uses zlib.
>
> For the packages?  Well, the new packaging system will specify what it 
> uses, and I don't know that we have that answer yet, though I doubt it 
> will be bzip2; zlib seems more likely there as well.
Actually.. what I was referring to is that I have spoken with Jan about 
changing the root archive script to use gzip instead of bzip for the 
archives. And, unpacking them similarly for boot. This should speed 
things up for boot.

sarah
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