On Aug 8, 2009, at 14:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Does MacPorts have a use_xz variable? Some tarballs are now
distributed
in both gz and xz compression format, and xz is significantly smaller
than gz. For instance, for the coreutils 7.4:
.tar.gz 9.3 MB
.tar.xz 3.9 MB
No, I had not heard of xz until you mentioned it here. It can be
added. But it looks like there is only an xz-devel port for version
4.999.8beta; no stable version available. They also state they prefer
users to build the latest version in git rather than use the beta.
Perhaps we should wait until their development cycle slows down a
bit, a stable version is released and an xz port is created before
promoting the use of these archives? From their homepage it looks
like the .xv format was only stabilized in version 4.999.7beta from
December 2008, assuming they don't change their mind and change the
format again.
_______________________________________________
macports-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
