Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:22:01 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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Hi John,
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:36:03AM -0800, J.H. wrote: (...) > I'm personally leaning towards option 1, though personally don't really > have a preference on the migration options, as both obviously offer > different advantages, and again this e-mail is more to spur on the > discussion and come to some general consensus across all of the groups > concerned before moving forward with a more specific plan.
I too think option 1 is better for various reasons, one of them being that gzip is present on every platform and OS right now, while bzip2 is orders of magnitude less common. Of course on Linux we all have both of them, but I find it important to continue to provide the sources in a standard format. Also, on the platforms where bzip2 is not installed by default, switching to xz should not be that hard, because either bz2 is currently not used and that changes nothing, or the users managed to install it themselves, and they'll simply have to do the same with xz.
I don't have much preference for any of the two migration options though.
Just my 2 cents, Willy
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