Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 08:11:46 -0700 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <492db551-d050-d0c0-0b46-2bb49d89c2f8@cs.ucla.edu> | Yes. I'd like to discontinue the old-style distribution at some point Old style distribution was a single file containing both code and data. It was split because it was more manageable (for everyone) that way, most people don't really care much about the code - that just serves as a reference implementation, and the various system distributions use their own code (either based originally on the reference implementation, or independently created) and just want the data - which is (or should be) the primary output from this group. kre ps: I don't really see any need for a better compression technique than what is currently used (or really, for that matter, any compression at all.) Neither the code, nor the data, and not even the combination of the two, is big enough by modern standards to require it.