[Development] Qt 5 beta

[Laszlo Papp]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com>wrote:

> On quinta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2012 16.59.13, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > I am wondering, if it was possible to get .bz2 tarballs as well? This is
> a
> > preferred format at times for packagings.
>
> We were doing them until the day before yesterday. Discussing yesterday, we
> decided that it wasn't worth the disk space to have all three of .tar.xz,
> .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz.
>

> On my suggestion, we dropped .tar.bz2. We're keeping .tar.gz to ensure
> maximum
> compatibility and .tar.xz because it's the smaller of the three.
>
> I'd rather not bring back .tar.bz2.
>


It is ok, if the space is (can be) a bottleneck.

Laszlo
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