From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2? Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:38:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20529.59741.188884.339507@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20261.9100.530243.54527@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <871uqfuuzm.fsf@gnu.org> <87ty3btge3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345448305 22372 80.91.229.3 (20 Aug 2012 07:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 09:38:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T3MZ5-00045j-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:38:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3MZ4-0006fZ-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3MZ2-0006fQ-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3MZ1-0006R4-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:46510) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T3MZ0-0006Pk-Q6; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q7K7c5k7007613; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:38:05 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q7K7c5nb032360; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:38:05 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q7K7c55j032356; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:38:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ty3btge3.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152693 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012, Chong Yidong wrote: >> Ulrich Mueller writes: >>> It would be considerably smaller (sizes are for "bzip2 -9" and >>> "xz -6" which is the default): >>> >>> 51056640 emacs-24.0.92.tar.gz >>> 41410560 emacs-24.0.92.tar.bz2 >>> 34443264 emacs-24.0.92.tar.xz >>> >>> Also xz can be uncompressed much faster: >> I'll do that for Emacs 24.4. Thanks for the suggestion. > Whoops, I mean 24.1. What was the reason that you didn't? Ulrich