Hello Eric, > On Jan 11, 2017, at 20:13, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/11/2017 06:29 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> Hello Eric and all, >> >>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> there are strong arguments for including .lzip >>>> distributions, either in addition or in place of .xz: >> >> I would ask at least to keep XZ and not switch solely to lzip. > > I certainly agree with this point - it is too early to make lzip the > sole distribution format. The question is whether shipping BOTH xz and > lzip, and letting people choose which format they prefer, is worth the > extra effort.
I have no objections here (and to the rest of what you wrote). Somewhat unrelated: > I don't know if there is any (easy) way to count how many downloads of > [...] But most likely that's a > pipe dream, as GNU encourages the use of mirrors for getting tarballs, > making it harder to centrally track what got downloaded where. Actually with the mirrors it's easier: The mirroring is done through a CGI script on a savannah machine. Once the transition to the new VMs is complete, I could provide some statistics. (which reminds me, time to go back to savannah stuff...) -assaf
