Re: [PATCH] build: Distribute tarball compressed with xz instead of bzip2

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 10:47:02 +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Tue,  6 Nov 2018 02:47:53 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > * Makefile (dist): Change bz2 to xz.
> > (%.xz): Add target.
> > (%.bz2): Remove target.
> 
> Curious: why a) use "xz" instead of what we got before, b) move from
> "bz2" to "xz" instead of offering both (like we continue to do for "gz")?

Sorry, should have added some rationale, thought it was obvious! :)

xz compresses much better than gzip and bzip2. gzip is very universal
in the availability sense, it's also pretty fast, and even though
takes more space it uses less memory. bzip2 OTOH is not widely
available, it's slow and takes more space, so it seems superfluous,
and providing three compressed tarballs, seems like a waste of space
on the server. :)

Thanks,
Guillem