Joel E. Denny wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> you might prefer to drop bzip2 compression altogether and stick with >> just the most-common gzip and best-compressed xz > > Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds like there's no reason to keep > bzip2.
Thanks. >> at least one (GNU cppi [*]) distributes only xz-compressed tarballs. > > I'm a little skeptical of dropping gzip just yet. Dropping both gzip and bzip2 might be considered premature for bison. However, I am tempted to try it for coreutils (or maybe a medium-profile project), just to see if anyone complains. At worst, I can upload gzip'd tarballs after the fact, if their lack causes trouble.
