[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code

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#537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code
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  Reporter:  eschnett               |       Owner:     
      Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new
  Priority:  minor                  |   Milestone:     
 Component:  EinsteinToolkit thorn  |     Version:     
Resolution:                         |    Keywords:     
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Comment (by eschnett):

 Tried this (xz and bzip2). The space savings are minimal, less than 1%.
 Don't know what is wrong. Maybe the tarballs are too small, maybe ASCII is
 already handled very well by gzip.

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