[Development] Decrease amounth of delivered src packages
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Feb 15 17:54:40 CET 2017
Em quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2017, às 15:05:06 PST, Dmitry Shachnev
escreveu:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > I would kindly request you to at least use tar.xz (rather than tar.gz) for
> > the tarballs. (What you use as the Windows format is something you need to
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> +1, please leave tar.xz instead of tar.gz.
>
> Users of all modern UNIX-like systems are able to decompress tar.xz, so .gz
> has really no advantage over .xz.
Adding my voice to that. If data volume is an issue, then let's by all means
standardise on .tar.xz.
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