Closed Bug 409455 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Use current version of 7-Zip: 4.42 -> 4.65

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
MozillaBuild
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: swsnyder, Assigned: ted)

References

Details

Suggestion: use the latest version of 7-Zip in MozillaBuild. The current (at this writing) v4.57, which is newer than the version found in MozillaBuild v1.1, compresses and decompresses faster than older versions.
MozillaBuild v1.3 includes [ 7-Zip 4.42 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-05-14 ]
Summary: Use current version of 7-Zip → Use current version of 7-Zip: 4.42 -> 4.57
http://7-zip.org/
Summary: Use current version of 7-Zip: 4.42 -> 4.57 → Use current version of 7-Zip: 4.42 -> 4.65
Severity: normal → trivial
7-zip is now used for Windows Mobile build as well, and using the latest version of the archiver (4.65, or 9.07 Beta) instead of 3+ years old v4.42 shaves off about 300KB from the installer size, which is noticeable on a mobile device. Are there any reasons not to switch to the latest version?
No, there just weren't any compelling reasons given to do so. Rebuilding MozillaBuild is a bit of a pain, and then getting it updated on the build slaves is more work yet, so I don't generally update software without compelling reasons.
Blocks: 570473
Pushed to m-b: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/rev/f6e58e7fef58
Assignee: nobody → ted.mielczarek
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
4.65 is apparently buggy, and breaks installer repacks: bug 711309. See, this is why we don't like to update things just for the sake of updating them.
Blocks: 711309
This was backed out in bug 763019.
Resolution: FIXED → WONTFIX
Product: mozilla.org → Firefox Build System
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