Hello Antonio, * Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:28:07PM CET: > As this message contains a patch, I guess this is the right list for it.
Yes, thanks. > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>Do you plan to support the creation of lzip-compressed tarballs? > >>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2008-11/msg00076.html > > > >Well, to be honest, I regard the addition of lzma support as a mistake > >in hindsight. We should have waited and added xz support only, with a > >stable xz release. It was also a mistake that I did not deprecate lzma > >support more prominently in the 1.11 release; will fix that for 1.11.1. > > It seems this has not been fixed in 1.11.1. Darn. Thanks for the reminder. > >In general, adding support for a new compression format Foo to Automake > >incurs several costs, at least with the current way we do things: > > Given the simplicity of the changes needed (see attached patch), I see > no reason for not supporting lzip, which some developers[1] already dub > "the currently best free compression program". > [1] ftp://ftp.gmplib.org/pub/snapshot/README Thanks for the patch. Care to add a ChangeLog entry? A new feature should be in master first, before it is applied to a branch. Since master Automake 'dist' can compress in parallel, the slowest compressor should be started first; do you have data on how compression speed of lzip compares with lzma, xz, shar, ...? Thanks, Ralf
