On 02/16/2010 11:05 AM, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:02:29AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: >> distributions like slackware and fedora moved to the "xz" compression >> a while ago, even the kernel developers think about abandoning the >> ".tar.gz" file format in favor of alternatives with better >> compression >> like ".tar.bz2" or ".tar.xz" (or short: ".txz"). <snip> > Does it really matter if the distribution is 1M or 1.5M? > I can see this makes a difference for large distributions like the > kernel, though. > > So I vote for keeping .tar.gz -- or if size really matters move to > bz2.
An option would be to have the same tarball compressed with both gzip and xz, and distribute both of them side-by-side. That way both parties should be happy: new distributions who want to use best compression technology can get tar.xz, and people who want to install new opensc on older distributions can still keep using tar.gz. -- Kalev _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
