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Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, jim at meyering dot net, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:07:32 -0700
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <20120126203148.GA30390@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83vcnyyww0.fsf@gnu.org> <20120126213612.GA4184@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120127050151.GL31397@adacore.com>

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> I think we can make everyone happy by simply adding the .xz format,
Joel> giving us 3 release tarballs. That would cost about 25-30MB extra
Joel> times 2-3 releases a year. I am not opposed to getting rid of the
Joel> .bz2 format, however.

I'm in favor of adding .xz and removing .bz2.
It doesn't hurt anybody and it will help some people with limited
bandwidth.  Other GNU programs seem to have done this without issue.

Tom

References:
- xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Jim Meyering
- Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Jan Kratochvil
- Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Jan Kratochvil
- Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Joel Brobecker

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