Hi, On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 19:07, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> We could do that. I suppose a possible agenda would be: > > 1. Start providing zstd susbstitutes anytime. However, most clients > will keep choosing lzip because it usually compresses better. > > 2. After the next release, stop providing lzip substitutes and provide > only gzip + zstd-19. > > This option has the advantage that it wouldn’t break any installation. > It’s not as nice as the ability to choose a download strategy, as we > discussed earlier, but implementing that download strategy sounds > tricky. I propose to announce at the next release (v1.3) that strategy X will be dropped at the next next release (v1.4), explaining the daemon upgrade and/or point to documentation. >From my understanding (thanks Guillaume for the plots!), X means gzip. And we should keep lzip-9 (users with a weak network) et zstd-19, as Pierre and Guillaume are proposing. So gzip would stay until v1.4, i.e., more or less 1 year (or 1.5 years) more. All the best, simon
