Size comparison of linux installers

[Nicolas Riesco]

Results for Falcon v2.5.0

-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  54M Jan 19 21:21 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0.7z
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  59M Jan 19 19:57 falcon-sql-client_2.5.0_amd64.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  80M Jan 19 21:14 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  87M Jan 19 19:55 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  59M Jan 19 22:45 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0.tar.lz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  58M Jan 19 21:47 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0.tar.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user  93M Jan 19 19:52 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0-x86_64.AppImage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  91M Jan 19 22:58 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0.x86_64.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  87M Jan 19 21:28 falcon-sql-client-2.5.0.zip

Note that tar.bz2, tar.gz, AppImage, rpm and zip are significantly larger than 7z, deb, tar.lz and tar.xz.