----- Original Message ----- > From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> > To: development@qt-project.org > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 5 beta > > On quinta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2012 17.30.58, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> > I'd rather not bring back .tar.bz2. >> It is ok, if the space is (can be) a bottleneck. > It's another 350 MB. We can offer it, but is there really the need? > > Can't you use .tar.xz instead?
tar.bz2 is pretty common, along with tar.gz. tar.xy, OTOH, is quite rare. Googling tar.bz2 yields good results what to do with such a file. Googling tar.xy yields nothing useful about what compression engine is used even used; Googling "compressed file extensions" yielded Wikipedia's list of archive formats which finally produced some useful info - that it's an LZMA2 compression. While I understand that tar.xy may be smaller it's use general use seems to be limited so unless there is a supported platform/target that only uses tar.xy, I'd suggest dropping it and keeping tar.bz2 instead. Given a choice between a bzip and gzip, I'd personally choose bzips. If space is a concern, then zip and tar.gz are probably sufficient for distribution. $0.02 Ben _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
