Eric Blake wrote: > Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk > on this list a while ago about switching to lzma, instead of bzip2, for > files installed via setup.exe, since it gives the best compression ratios > to decompression speed tradeoff among all the popular open-source > generic-data compression algorithms. The --lzma option only works if lzma > is properly installed.
This would also allow the new automake dist-lzma to function. > Arguments against: tar is in the Base category, so the default cygwin > install would grow in size and lzma would graduate to base, even though it > is still relatively new. I'm all for fighting bloat, but we're talking about 68KB extra to download and ~150KB extra disk space, so I don't think it's too big of a deal. Brian
