From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32276 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2012 19:08:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 32268 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2012 19:08:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:07:52 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0UJ7aep026462 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:07:36 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0UJ7aEc031229; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:07:36 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0UJ7WhJ013545; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:07:33 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Jan Kratochvil , Eli Zaretskii , jim@meyering.net, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs? References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <20120126203148.GA30390@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83vcnyyww0.fsf@gnu.org> <20120126213612.GA4184@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120127050151.GL31397@adacore.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:08:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20120127050151.GL31397@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:01:51 +0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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/msg00118.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Joel> I think we can make everyone happy by simply adding the .xz format, Joel> giving us 3 release tarballs. That would cost about 25-30MB extra Joel> times 2-3 releases a year. I am not opposed to getting rid of the Joel> .bz2 format, however. I'm in favor of adding .xz and removing .bz2. It doesn't hurt anybody and it will help some people with limited bandwidth. Other GNU programs seem to have done this without issue. Tom