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#168 LZMA
This 1 line modification adds LZMA compression of the binary archive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Markov_chain_algorithm
New GNU tar 1.20 has added option --lzma so this might become more popular in the future. Just take a look at the numbers. Winner is clear.
2191360 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar
1143319 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.Z
804228 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
710264 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
560327 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.lzma
LZMA compression added to Makefile