fredag den 30 mars 2012 klockan 12:23 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta: > > Any objections? > > Yes, I object. "xz" is not sufficiently well spread in default > system installations yet. Use "bz2" if you must change. That gives > better block robustness. Changing for size reduction is a > questionable motivation. Changing just because others have done so > is even worse. > > xz is spread enough within the GNU project more so than bz2, and some > projects have stoppped distributing gz tarballs completely. But as > compromise, since your objection is immensly valuable, lets distribute > both gz and xz tarballs.
The observations I base my wish upon are these: * "GNU tar" and "FreeBSD tar" support compress, gzip, bzip2, and xz. * "OpenBSD tar" supports only compress, gzip, and bzip2. * "Solaris tar" supports no compression whatsoever. Therefore I am pleased that you let us generate gzip-compressed archives in addition to the, admittedly, more modern xz-compressed archives. Best regards, Mats
