On 03/02/2012 04:48 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Eric Blake wrote: >> >> The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; > > What problem are y'all trying to solve here? Is gnu.org running out of > disk space or bandwidth? No, space and bandwidth are not the primary driver. > A better argument is the one behind RPM moving to xz: so they can keep > adding bigger and more packages without moving to a second DVD. But, I > don't see that applying to gnu.org. Actually, this really is part of the reason - since xz is technically superior to gzip (better compression, same decompression speeds), we are doing users a favor by getting xz installed and commonly available in more places. But enough people have complained, that for at least 2.69, I will still ship a .gz tarball. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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