This reply should have been sent to the autoconf list rather than
directly to Eric. The below is what I sent to Eric:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Eric Blake wrote:
The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if
this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release,
please speak up now.
From what I have seen (and from its own documentation), the 'xz' implementation
is not particularly portable and it requires considerable resources (e.g.
memory) so it is unwise to discard the well-supported .gz format. The world
will not particularly suffer if autoconf distribution files consume more
storage than absolutely required. I would toss the .bz2 format if a format
needs to be removed.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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