On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 17:07, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/8/19 4:43 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > bzip2 is no longer a favored compression. If we are trying to pick a > > compression that is most likely to be present on any system, go with > > gzip. If we are trying to pick a compression that packs tighter and > > uncompresses faster, pick xz or zstd. But bzip2 does neither: it packs > > slightly tighter than gzip but has slower performance in doing so, and > > thus is no longer used as a default compression. > > The problem was with OpenBSD 6.1 which hadn't xz available. > > In commit 12745eaa02 Gerd updated the VM to OpenBSD 6.5 and we now have > access to xz. IIRC OSX supported versions also provide xz. > > If we want to revert Laszlo's patches and apply his first version (using > xz), we should do that during 5.0 dev cycle, now it is too late. > I'd prefer we simply fix bzip2 for the next release.
I don't think we should try to use 'xz' because I don't see the point. We should use something that's generally available, whether that's bzip2 or gzip. Life's too short to deal with yet another file compression tool and format. thanks -- PMM
