Sending logs to the list (was: Guile is broken, again...)

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Feb 11 18:54:00 PST 2016


Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> Just compress the log file before posting it. It will be a fraction of 
>> its original size then...
> 
> Yet another hoop through which to jump, in other words...  Should it be 
> ZIP, Compress, or what?  Sigh, so many standards, and so little time...

A link to a pastebin is a better solution. There are plenty of them out
there, and it's good netiquette to avoid sending attachments to an
entire mailing list.

If you must attach the log, any of zip, gzip, bzip2 are fine, pretty
much everyone can extract those.

- Josh


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