Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] JEP 336: deprecate pack200

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, from the download location itself.

mistria@build:~/downloads/releases/photon/201806271001/plugins> du -ch *.jar.pack.gz

[...]

741M    total

mistria@build:~/downloads/releases/photon/201806271001/plugins> du -ch *.jar

[...]

1.8GB    total

So it's ~60% less, and Lars experiment with gz shows that gz keeps the same ratio after compression.

So are we ready to increase the download ratio caused by updates to download.eclipse.org by 115% ?