Re: [PATCH] dist: add dist-zstd option

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 12:35 PM Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:03 AM Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> add support for using the zstd compression algorithm.
>> >
>> > Hi Giuseppe,
>> > Thank you for that patch.
>> > I've adjusted it and propose the attached, which makes these changes:
>> > - add tests
>> > - that exposed the need for a correction, s/-d/-dc/ in distdir.am
>> > - extend documentation
>> > - use the 3-byte suffix, .zst, not .zstd
>> > - use -19 as the default compression level
>> >
>> > We must use -19 as the default, not the aggressive --ultra -22 -- the
>> > package maintainer can always override with ZSTD_OPT if they know all
>> > clients will always have sufficient memory. In the early days, some
>> > reported failure to decompress a "xz -9e"-compressed coreutils tarball
>> > on tiny-memory routers. Like zstd's --ultra settings, xz's -9 requires
>> > more RAM when DEcompressing -- so automake defaults to xz's "-e" (use
>> > extra CPU only) and used -e8 for coreutils
>> > (https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=v8.15-61-gc1d07237a):
>> > i.e., still require 32MiB more RAM, but not the 64MiB that "-9" would
>> > require.
>> >
>> > Cc'd the zstd author, Yann Collet, in case he'd like to add something.
>> >
>> > Giuseppe, please re-review this diff and its updated commit log.
>>
>> is there anything more holding the patch?
>
> Sorry about the delay.
> On suggestion from Yann, I propose one additional change. Barring
> objection, I will push the combined result tomorrow.

The new patch looks good to me.

Thanks,
Giuseppe