On 31.08.2012 13:54, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On sexta-feira, 31 de agosto de 2012 13.40.38, Peter Kümmel wrote: >>> On the #qt-release channel, then reviewed through Gerrit. >>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/33837 >> >> This is a little bit "behind closed doors". >> Similar to the decision releasing beta without any note on the list. > > It wasn't closed-doors. The commit was public. If you wanted to find out about > it, you could have set up a Gerrit notification on the qtrepotools repository. > The #qt-labs channel had a link to #qt-releases on its topic, inviting > everyone to participate in the process. > > We can't very well announce every single change we're making on the mailing > list. I only post when it's large, relevant for others, or when I really need > input from others. > > Finally, this *was* a subjective choice: mine. I want to drive adoption of > newer, better technology. LZMA is a great improvement over the compression > technologies used so far and the xz format is getting interesting adoption. > Many thanks to Julian Seward for bzip2 (among other projects he's contributed > to), but xz is producing smaller packages nowadays. > > So, I'd say that our position is: stop complaining and upgrade. If you can't > upgrade, there's .gz and you'll pay the penalty by increased disk space in > your system. >
I also prefer LZMA, this was just a comment about the process. > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
