On Thursday 30 August 2012 11:48:38 BRM wrote: > 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
I'm not sure wether it's just a typo, but you consistently write .xy so I'm going to assume not. Also, first and third tar.xz results in google for me are: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1116012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz Not being a packager I don't know, but I have a hard time imagining it's harder to change your packaging scripts from Qt4 to Qt5 than from tar.bz2 to tar.xz. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
