ceylon/ceylon-compiler — Issue #275: Using Pack200 for .jar/.car files
Author: quintesse
Created: 2011-12-11 14:16:35+00:00
State: open

We could (shoukd?) be using Pack200 for our generated .car/.jar files to make them as small as possible.
The main file format stays "zip" so there's no problem if somebody wants to take a look inside a .car file for themselves.

http://blogs.oracle.com/manveen/entry/pack200_and_compression_through_ant

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/deployment/deployment-guide/pack200.html

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/jar/Pack200.html