Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/11/2010 12:51 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> Option 1)
>>
>> Leave gz as the master, and migrate bz2 to xz.  This will happen in
>> stages obviously. with bz2 ultimately being phased out.
>>
>> 	Migration option 1)
>>
>> 		All new content would be provided in .bz2 and .xz with
>> 		an ultimate date set that the .bz2 files would stop
>> 		being generated with new content.  This would leave all
>> 		existing content alone and it would not be a migration
>> 		of the current .bz2 files to xz
> 
> I believe this is cleanest. gzip has performance advantages, and old
> files suddenly disappearing would be just weird.
> 

It would also be "just weird" to:

a) require that the end user knows the particular compression format
used by a particular legacy file.
b) having to have the mirror system deal with a mix of .bz2 and .xz files.

	-hpa
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