[Development] Qt 5 beta

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Fri Aug 31 20:26:20 CEST 2012



31.08.2012, 15:54, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> Finally, this *was* a subjective choice: mine. I want to drive adoption of
> newer, better technology. LZMA is a great improvement over the compression
> technologies used so far and the xz format is getting interesting adoption.

LZMA really "is a great improvement over the compression" if we talk about
compression of binaries. It's undoubtfully *the best* available open source
compression algorithm here. But for source archives difference with bz2 is not so
drastic.

> Many thanks to Julian Seward for bzip2 (among other projects he's contributed
> to), but xz is producing smaller packages nowadays.
>
> So, I'd say that our position is: stop complaining and upgrade. If you can't
> upgrade, there's .gz and you'll pay the penalty by increased disk space in
> your system.
>
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Konstantin



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