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Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz
- From: VÃclav Zeman <vhaisman at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:16:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz
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On 6 March 2012 16:06, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
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> The question remains why the GCC project is not using the 'xz' format. The GCC project produces huge tarballs which might benefit from 'xz' but they choose not to use it.
This is a quote from thread "Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz" in
autoconf@. I wonder what is the official position of the GCC team
about this.
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