Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> writes: >> Here are the XZ compressed sources: > > Have you considered using any other compressed format?
I think file size isn't as important as it used to be, and today it is more important to think about other matters including bootstrap/reproducible-build and supply-chain concerns. I find the arguments to chose anything beyond gzip are rather weak today. I changed GNU InetUtils to gzip recently (from xz+gz). Sometimes I have considered publishing non-compressed tarballs to not have to deal with compression concerns, but I suspect that may be less portable than compressed tarballs. And I don't see any realistic computing platform lacking gzip anyway. Changing compression algorithm has a cost too. I'm not convinced the arguments for any particular compression method are strong enough to warrant switching. XZ is really slow compared to zstd which is what I would use in any performance-critical situation. This is a great bike shed :) /Simon
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