[bug#29995] [PATCH 0/5] Publish build logs, compress as gzip

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote on 05/01/18 at 18:04:
>> For reference, here’s the compressed build log of GCC 7.2.0 with gzip
>> and bzip2, -9 and default compression, and no compression:
>
> I've wondered before: is bzip2 considered part of the API at this point?

I think guix-daemon doesn’t have to stick to bzip2, and these patches
show how we can add support for more compression algorithms for build
logs.

Or did you mean another API?

> It seems so suboptimal in this age of LZMA.

For build logs I think it doesn’t matter much as long as it’s
compressed.  gzip is far from ideal but it does a good-enough job IMO.

Ludo’.