> NOTE: sometime "pretty soon", tar.gz files will not be distributed.
> .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/autogen-5.16.tar.gz
> (deprecated)
> .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/autogen-5.16.tar.xz
Please don't deprecate gz. xz decompression has terrible memory size
implications. Old or cheap machines (e.g. with megabytes rather than
gigabytes of DRAM) can't necessarily decompress an arbitrary xz file.
Check the man page.
Yes, I have several such machines around here -- including OLPCs,
cellphones, and old desktop computers.
I remember when EMACS stood for Eight Megs (of main memory) And
(despite that huge memory) Continuously Swapping (anyway). If your
source code release file can't be decompressed on an 8-megabyte
machine, then don't release it that way. (I just measured gzip and
it's doing fine in 2mb virtual, 508kb resident.)
John Gilmore
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