Re: [Gramps-users] Question about gpkg file format

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2012/10/2 Ron Johnson <ron...@co...>

> Since JPG files and other media formats can't be compressed well by gzip,
> why not just compress the internal .gramps xml file then tar that
> compressed
> file with the already-compressed images?  Seems like that would be more
> efficient: compress what can be compressed, but don't compress what can't.
>

Perhaps more efficient, but more complex code. The code now just uses
python routines, in your suggestion we would need to use mime-types or
extensions to decide what to compress.
I don't think the overhead is such that this is a real problem.

Benny

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