Hello.
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 11:30, Jean-Philippe André wrote:
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> With the upcoming 1.10 release, can we change the default distribution
> tarball to be a tar.xz instead of tar.gz?
We also had some discussions about this with raster and Simon on IRC.
Let me try to include their views here.
> C
Hi all,
Lots of packagers use bzip2 myself being one of them, it would be nice
if we could keep bzip2 for atleast 1.10 maybe all three until 1.12 that
way we can all update our specs from bzip to xz when we have time rather
then needing to get to it before we ship the next release. I have a
scr
I've never really used bzip2. I'm more than happy with having .xz and .gz
only.
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Daniel Zaoui wrote:
> For me (as a French), it was super clear :-).
>
> On 05/26/2014 09:25 AM, Jean-Philippe André wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Just to make things clear, using dist-
For me (as a French), it was super clear :-).
On 05/26/2014 09:25 AM, Jean-Philippe André wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Just to make things clear, using dist-xz will not remove the tar.gz files.
> This will create tar.gz and tar.xz archives, but no tar.bzip2 anymore.
>
> I'm also proposing to change the
Hi again,
Just to make things clear, using dist-xz will not remove the tar.gz files.
This will create tar.gz and tar.xz archives, but no tar.bzip2 anymore.
I'm also proposing to change the Download page of the website to point to
the XZ files instead of GZ.
This should save a bit of bandwidth for
Hi there,
With the upcoming 1.10 release, can we change the default distribution
tarball to be a tar.xz instead of tar.gz?
Change in configure.ac:
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.6 dist-bzip2 -Wall -Wno-portability color-tests])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.6 dist-xz -Wall -Wno-portability color-tests])
The file s
