[Buildbot-devel] Compressed build logs

[Shaun McDonald]

On 2 Dec 2007, at 07:31, Robert Helmer wrote:

> On 12/1/07, Shaun McDonald <buildbot-project at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>  
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a setting that you can use in the buildbot to compress the
> build logs stored by the build master. The OpenOffice.org build logs
> compress really well. The extra time for compression and decompression
> on reading and writing the logs is far less important than  the space
> that the logs take up.
>
>
> I don't see anything in the user manual.
>
> I've thought about this too, and another advantage to storing the  
> logs compressed is that the "Content-encoding: gzip" header could be  
> used to send the logs out to the browser without having the  
> uncompress first on the server side, and would likely make loading  
> large log files much faster.
>
>
Not only being faster, but it would also save bandwidth.

Where would the changes be needed for this? If I get some pointer, I  
might be able to implement it.

Shaun
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