[Development] Qt 5 beta

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----- Original Message -----

> From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 5 beta
> 
> On quinta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2012 17.30.58, Laszlo Papp wrote:
>>  > I'd rather not bring back .tar.bz2.
>>  It is ok, if the space is (can be) a bottleneck.
> It's another 350 MB. We can offer it, but is there really the need?
> 
> Can't you use .tar.xz instead?

tar.bz2 is pretty common, along with tar.gz.
tar.xy, OTOH, is quite rare.

Googling tar.bz2 yields good results what to do with such a file.
Googling tar.xy yields nothing useful about what compression engine is used even used; Googling "compressed file extensions" yielded Wikipedia's list of archive formats which finally produced some useful info - that it's an LZMA2 compression.

While I understand that tar.xy may be smaller it's use general use seems to be limited so unless there is a supported platform/target that only uses tar.xy, I'd suggest dropping it and keeping tar.bz2 instead. Given a choice between a bzip and gzip, I'd personally choose bzips.

If space is a concern, then zip and tar.gz are probably sufficient for distribution.

$0.02

Ben