Re: Source tar.gz's extract slowly on some platforms

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com> wrote: > It looks like ~700 files are added each year to whatever new version is > released. The bulk of the new files seem to involve the test suite. > I certainly hope the vast bulk of that is tests. :D > I'm only pointing out something I've noticed. I'm not compiling anything > when I just want to search/view the latest source code nor do I run 'make > test' when deploying, so the test suite is somewhat superfluous for most of > my use-cases. Test suites are useful and important, which makes this an > observation unless, of course, this prompts someone to go forth and do > something (whatever that might be). > I hear what you're saying in terms of a "browsing source code" use case, but given availability of tools like lxr.php.net and of course github.com/php/php-src the scope of that use case feels quite small compared to a one-time decompression cost, even at seven minutes. But if your workflow is your workflow and tarballs are it, consider using the --exclude directive to tar. Example: tar -zxf php-7.1.0.tgz --exclude=tests -Sara