Re: [bug-inetutils] deprectae .gz and only distribute .xz tarballs

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   fredag den 30 mars 2012 klockan 12:23 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
   >    > Any objections?
   > 
   >    Yes, I object. "xz" is not sufficiently well spread in default
   >    system installations yet. Use "bz2" if you must change. That gives
   >    better block robustness. Changing for size reduction is a
   >    questionable motivation. Changing just because others have done so
   >    is even worse.
   > 
   > xz is spread enough within the GNU project more so than bz2, and some
   > projects have stoppped distributing gz tarballs completely.  But as
   > compromise, since your objection is immensly valuable, lets distribute
   > both gz and xz tarballs.

   The observations I base my wish upon are these:

     * "GNU tar" and "FreeBSD tar" support compress, gzip, bzip2, and xz.

     * "OpenBSD tar" supports only compress, gzip, and bzip2.

     * "Solaris tar" supports no compression whatsoever.

   Therefore I am pleased that you let us generate gzip-compressed archives
   in addition to the, admittedly, more modern xz-compressed archives.

We are a group of hackers, all opinions weigh in, and if a decision
that we make makes life easier for everyone then that is the decision
to make.

Interesting thing to note is that tar is not part of POSIX.