On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:21, Alberto Ruiz <ar...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hello Olav, > > What is the reasoning behind this move? Just storage savings? It seems > to me that it will actually be easier to request our sponsors > (RedHat/Novell/Oracle...) for more storage than pushing everyone into > the pain of having to deal with such unfamiliar format. We are > releasing .gz and .bz2 at the same time at the moment. Getting rid of > .gz would be reasonable, bz2 is supported everywhere for many years, > whereas .xz, well, is the first time I hear about it. We cannot assume > that the change won't have an impact just because most modern Linux > distros have packages to support the format. > > I am not trying to criticise the effort rather than trying to > understand why is this such a big win.
The explanation is in the following previous thread: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-March/msg00002.html The problem is not storage, it is bandwidth. -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
