From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8050 invoked by alias); 28 Jan 2012 08:21:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 7955 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jan 2012 08:21:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,SPF_SOFTFAIL,TW_NX,TW_XZ X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il (HELO mtaout22.012.net.il) (80.179.55.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:20:52 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LYI000001RNEI00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:20:50 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.102.195]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LYI000Z61UP8K50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:20:50 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:21:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs? In-reply-to: <201201271341.41758.vapier@gentoo.org> To: Mike Frysinger Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, jim@meyering.net Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <831uqkz1co.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <201201262049.33716.vapier@gentoo.org> <83mx99zf1z.fsf@gnu.org> <201201271341.41758.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00105.txt.bz2 > From: Mike Frysinger > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:41:40 -0500 > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, > jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, > jim@meyering.net > > On Friday 27 January 2012 04:10:32 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Mike Frysinger > > > On Thursday 26 January 2012 16:30:39 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > Previous proposal by me: > > > > > xz for the new release tip > > > > > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-09/msg00341.html > > > > > > > > Please think a little about those who don't necessarily have a tar > > > > that knows about xz. The world doesn't end with GNU/Linux. > > > > > > why does tar have to know about xz ? stdin hasn't suddenly stopped > > > working. > > > > > > xzcat foo.tar.xz | tar xf - > > > > Because (a) this is less convenient to type > > you gotta be pulling my leg with this No more than you are pulling mine with a few extra bytes. > > and (b) you assume that ports of tar to non-Posix platforms know how to read > > binary streams from stdin, but that assumption is false in quite a few > > existing and widely used ports of tar. > > still a non-issue: > unxz foo.tar.xz > tar xf foo.tar So is pulling a few extra bytes through the wire. > forcing people to live in the past because you can't be bothered to type a few > extra characters on your legacy systems is ridiculous I see nothing ridiculous in a request to cater to a situation of your fellow developer of Free Software, and don't understand how can you ridicule such a request.