[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1229: provide downloadable tarball of ET

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#1229: provide downloadable tarball of ET
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  Reporter:  rhaas                    |       Owner:        
      Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  review
  Priority:  minor                    |   Milestone:        
 Component:  EinsteinToolkit website  |     Version:        
Resolution:                           |    Keywords:        
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Comment (by knarf):

 We could cut the size down by not including repository metadata. This
 would reduce the size of the final extraced data from about 724MB to about
 one half. Of course, this would have also the disadvantage that users
 would not be able to 'update' easily. However, with the current setup
 users might run into the trouble that their clients might not be
 compatible with the repository client data format. I usually don't expect
 RCS metadata when I download a tarball.

 Using another compression also helps. Your uncompressed tarball is 589MB
 (the rest to the mentioned 724MB seems to be filesystem overhead -
 understandable with that many small files). The gzipped tarball is 271MB.
 xz would get this down to 187MB. Combining this with excluding RCS data
 the compressed tarball should bring us to less than 100MB.

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