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Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency |
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Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:10:17 -0700 |
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On 03/02/2012 04:48 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69;
>
> What problem are y'all trying to solve here? Is gnu.org running out of
> disk space or bandwidth?
No, space and bandwidth are not the primary driver.
> A better argument is the one behind RPM moving to xz: so they can keep
> adding bigger and more packages without moving to a second DVD. But, I
> don't see that applying to gnu.org.
Actually, this really is part of the reason - since xz is technically
superior to gzip (better compression, same decompression speeds), we are
doing users a favor by getting xz installed and commonly available in
more places.
But enough people have complained, that for at least 2.69, I will still
ship a .gz tarball.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, (continued)
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Bob Friesenhahn, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Bob Friesenhahn, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Bob Friesenhahn, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Eric Blake, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/02
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Warren Young, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, John Hawkinson, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Warren Young, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Russ Allbery, 2012/03/02
- Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Bob Friesenhahn, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/06
Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Russ Allbery, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/02