Re: [tz] [PROPOSED PATCH 1/2] Also distribute code and data in a single tarball

On 22 August 2016 at 14:57, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

The need for compression will go up once we start distributing .tzs files (which partly motivated the format switch).

Regardless of whether tzdata (the source dataset) and tzcode (the reference implementation) are merged into one tarball — I have no strong opinion, but would err on the side of long lead times for changes of this sort — I trust that the idea would be to keep the reference output in a separate distribution. I think concatenating the reference output in a single tarball alongside the source dataset would encourage implementations which simply parse the reference output, which may be counter to our goals. -- Tim Parenti