[Releasing] Tarball distribution issue for the important releases

[simon.hausmann at nokia.com]

Hi,

I support Thiago's decision. I don't see an actual _problem_ in providing the new compression given the availability of the tgz files.

I do see the mentioned advantages of it and I believe in guerilla tactics for introducing new formats like that. I did not see a formal mail from Linux distros when bz2 was introduced, instead it was adopted.


Simon

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Sendt fra min Nokia N901.09.12 05:39 skrev ext Laszlo Papp:
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