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> Integrating Zopfli into the npm CLI would be difficult. Is it possible to modify "gzip -9" or zlib to invoke zopfli? This way everyone who wants to compress

> Integrating Zopfli into the npm CLI would be difficult. Is it possible to modify "gzip -9" or zlib to invoke zopfli? This way everyone who wants to compress better will get the extra compression automatically, in addition to npm. There will be an increase in compression time, but since "gzip -9" is not the default, people preferring compression speed might not be affected.

bombcar 2y ago
You'd have more problems here, but you could do it - if you let it take ages and ages to percolate though all environments. It's been almost 30 years since bzip2 was released and even now not everything can handle tar.bz2
- arccy 2y ago
  probably because bzip2 isn't a very good format