<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 August 2016 at 14:57, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The need for compression will go up once we start distributing .tzs files (which partly motivated the format switch).</blockquote></div><br>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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div></div>
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