Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:29 +0100 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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Hi!
> Option 1) > > Leave gz as the master, and migrate bz2 to xz. This will happen in > stages obviously. with bz2 ultimately being phased out. > > Migration option 1) > > All new content would be provided in .bz2 and .xz with > an ultimate date set that the .bz2 files would stop > being generated with new content. This would leave all > existing content alone and it would not be a migration > of the current .bz2 files to xz
I believe this is cleanest. gzip has performance advantages, and old files suddenly disappearing would be just weird.
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