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diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index be55bcfcde..cff0d233c9 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<gzip> +doesn't actually produce the smallest possible DEFLATE output. If you have the +AdvanceCOMP suite (e.g. the C<advancecomp> 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. |