Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012, Chong Yidong wrote:

>> Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:
>>> It would be considerably smaller (sizes are for "bzip2 -9" and
>>> "xz -6" which is the default):
>>>
>>>    51056640 emacs-24.0.92.tar.gz
>>>    41410560 emacs-24.0.92.tar.bz2
>>>    34443264 emacs-24.0.92.tar.xz
>>>
>>> Also xz can be uncompressed much faster:

>> I'll do that for Emacs 24.4.  Thanks for the suggestion.

> Whoops, I mean 24.1.

What was the reason that you didn't?

Ulrich