Re: lzip support

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> > On Friday 2008-11-28 21:37, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > > It makes sense to me that periodically Automake maintainers make an
> > > evaluation (and with the blessing of the FSF) intentionally
> > > deprecate generation of certain archive types as new archive types
> > > are added. The intention would be to diminish the number of archive
> > > types, which needlessly clog disk space and consume developer time.
>
> I don't understand.  The default is to create gzip'ed archives only.
> That hasn't changed in more than a decade.  And gzip isn't going to go

Right.  However, a profusion of formats creates confusion for users 
and burdens archive sites because package authors/maintainers 
naturally feel that they should enable and upload all of the supported 
formats.  Automake is in a unique position to influence the commonly 
used formats.

It is not helpful to the world to have the same stuff packaged up in 
five different archive formats.  In fact, it is quite wasteful.

Bob
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