[Releasing] Tarball distribution issue for the important releases

[Sergio Ahumada]

On 09/01/2012 05:39 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A final summary for the previous discussion [1] from my side what
> happened with the client interface for important and long way to go
> releases like this beta 1:
>
> 350 MB sparing (without space limitation issues) or being helpful with
> many clients.
>
> The current "sneak-in" (i.e. not public releasing mailing list) decision
> went for sparing 350 MB. I personally disagree with that 350 MB is worth
> the troubles for those clients. I would like to propose to get the bz2
> tarball back in the future for those important releases, if there are no
> space constraints.
>
> What do others think? Any (reasonable) objections? Thank you in advance.
>
> Laszlo
>
> [1]
> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2012-August/005992.html

Hi,

Don't get me wrong, but it seems to me that your are more pissed off 
with the process being used than because of the actual file missing.

The file can be generated again if you submit a patch reverting the 
removal and getting a +1 from all the other package/distro maintainers.

But, I'd expect the reason behind this revert being told in the commit 
message, something in the lines of:

- I can't do my work without the .bz2 file
- My machines don't support any of the other formats out there
- Before it took me 1 min and now 1 hr to just decompress the file
- There is no way to make this to work with the current files

I don't think that comments like

- I am lazy
- I love .bz2
- I don't like .gz
- .xz is too new
- I don't know how to use the new .xz

would make people to give a +2 though

Actually, I'd like to have just one format for *Unix-alike and one for 
Windows, nothing else.

Cheers,
-- 
Sergio Ahumada Navea
san at sansano.inf.utfsm.cl