On January 21, 2020 11:44:15 AM EST, Vanessa McHale wrote:
>Would it be plausible to distribute both? That way users would not have
>to install lzip.
>
>Cheers,
>Vanessa McHale
>
>> On Jan 20, 2020, at 4:15 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>>
>> Vanessa McHale writes:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>
>>> GHC
Would it be plausible to distribute both? That way users would not have to
install lzip.
Cheers,
Vanessa McHale
> On Jan 20, 2020, at 4:15 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>
> Vanessa McHale writes:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> GHC is distributed as .tar.xz tarballs; I assume this is because it
>>
Vanessa McHale writes:
> Hello all,
>
>
> GHC is distributed as .tar.xz tarballs; I assume this is because it
> produces small tarballs. However, xz is ill-suited for archiving due to
> its lack of error recovery. Moreover, lzip produces smaller tarballs
> with GHC (I tested with
