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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 09:30:12 -0700
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To: Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Source tar.gz's extract slowly on some platforms
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

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