From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C046DE0F51 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:28:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.448 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.448 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.204, SPF_NEUTRAL=0.652] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fFbGyswJs-Xx for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (guru.guru-group.fi [46.183.73.34]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5336DE0F31 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by guru.guru-group.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBEE1001EC; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:28:04 +0300 (EEST) From: Tomi Ollila To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor , David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] release: use xz compression In-Reply-To: <871s2xlpag.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> References: <20190319100819.17724-1-david@tethera.net> <20190319100819.17724-2-david@tethera.net> <871s2xlpag.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.28.3+42~g7b16377 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/25.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: HhBM'cA~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:28:08 -0000 On Sat, Mar 23 2019, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Tue 2019-03-19 07:08:19 -0300, David Bremner wrote: >> This produces tarballs that are roughly 30% smaller. > > LGTM. I can confirm that i'm seeing tarball sizes go from 924543 bytes > (or 917179 bytes with gzip -9) to 644892 bytes with this xz approach. > > I think the ecosystem that notmuch targets *can* handle .xz these days, > too. Most probably! Something related: any wisdom here: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html ? > --dkg Tomi