Jani Heikkinen wrote: > well, of course this would be possible as well but this would be a change > to existing "behavior" : Currently 7z is with unix line endings. And as > you can see from statistic tar.gz and .zip are most used ones and so on it > would be quite reasonable to continue offering those
I would kindly request you to at least use tar.xz (rather than tar.gz) for the tarballs. (What you use as the Windows format is something you need to sort out with the Windows people.) The fact that tar.gz is still the most downloaded is probably mostly out of habit, or maybe your download site is directing to them by default (which ought to be fixed anyway, even if you were to keep both). tar.gz has no advantage over tar.xz, it is just a lot larger. Switching to the tar.gz tarballs (from the tar.xz tarballs that are currently used) would increase the size of distributions' source packages (source RPM etc.) significantly. It is sad that the legacy gzip compression is living a renaissance due to automatic tarball exports from GitHub and the like producing only that format. It should finally be retired now that there are algorithms that are just as open and that compress significantly better. At least for projects like Qt that produce their own tarballs and are already able to produce xz- compressed ones, I see no reason whatsoever to switch back to the obsolete gzip. The bzip2 (tar.bz2) compression is also obsoleted by xz nowadays, I see no good reason to pick that one either. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development