On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
I just encountered new argument for providing .gz of autoconf also in
the future.
There is no tangible benefit offered to the world by removing the
gzip-compressed autoconf package. Xz is excessively complex,
excessively large, and has limited portability and stability compared
with gzip.
The XZ Utils project obviously has issues. As an example, I clicked
on the NEWS link offered by its web site (http://www.tukaani.org/xz/)
to see what has changed and saw this
"http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD";. Further
investigation reveals that its git repository has vaporized.
If the autoconf project desires to offer benefit to the world based on
package sizes, there is much more to be gained by reducing the bloat
that Autoconf configure and support scripts add to the thousands of
packages which depend on it.
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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