Re: [PATCH] configure.ac: add dist-xz

[Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org>]

Hello,

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> a écrit:

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> I've tweaked it to take TARBALL as both .gz and .xz, but tbh, I think
> we could very uncontroversially drop .gz too. A lot of software is .xz
> only (like all of GNOME) and it doesn't really bother anyone.
>
> My gut is it's not worth adding additional machinery to allow
> disabling xz creation because it kind of conflicts with the dist-*
> stuff from automake (I think we could do it, but it's a bit awkward).
>
> The gzip creation is pretty cheap though.
>
> The libabigail tarball is by necessity quite large (which was the
> motivation originally) so I think we have decent justification.
>
> TL;DR: I'll send a patch now with fixed TARBALL variable to include
> both .gz and .xz but not sure it's worth the complexity to
> allow specifically disabling either. If I had to choose, I'd just
> drop gzip entirely given other projects do that fine without problems.

OK, let's follow your gut feeling then :-)  Your point of view seems
sensible to me.  My initial inclination seems overkill.

I went ahead and applied your initial patch, in the form that I posted
at the end of my previous message, to master.

Thank you for your dedication.

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Cheers,

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		Dodji