[Development] Decrease amounth of delivered src packages

[Konstantin Tokarev]

15.02.2017, 13:39, "Jani Heikkinen" <jani.heikkinen at qt.io>:
> Hi all,
>
> As you know we need to optimize our systems to be able to keep our plans in the future. In CI side we are handling at least 4 different branches at same time. Releasing side we should be able to do many releases/snapshots parallel, test those releases/snapshots parallel etc. And all this needs lots of hw capasity (both calculating power & disc space).
>
> We are trying to analyze the places where to do optimization and one place is our src package creation and delivery: At the moment we are doing, testing & delivering single src packages + separate submodule src packages, all these with .zip, .7z, .tar.gz & .tar.xz! Huge amount of src packages/snapshot/release. And currently doing these both for enterprise and lgpl! In the future (5.10?) we should be able to use unified ones meaning no separate LGPL & enterprise ones.
>
> But I think we could also drop those less used ones(*) as well with quicker schedule so I propose:
>
> From 5.9 -> let's start doing & delivering
>
> - One set of src packages with ẃindows line endings (.zip, both single one & submodule specific, both enterprise and lgpl)
> - One set of src packages with unix line endings (.tar.gz, both single one & submodule specific, both enterprise and lgpl)

Why not use most efficient compression formats instead, i.e. keep 7z and tar.xz only?

>
> br,
> Jani
>
> *:Download statistic:
> .7z 7%
> .tar.gz 44%
> .tar.xz 12%
> .zip 37%
>
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Regards,
Konstantin