suggestion to use lzma for snapshots, maybe more?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2010-01-12 19:40:50 -0500, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> I was idly looking through a couple of snapshots of the gcc -trunk line.
>  I am by no means a compiler developer, but I did notice that you aren't
> using lzma for compression.  I don't know if bandwidth is at all a
> concern, but I can point to a >20% drop in download size:
> 
> $ svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk gcc-trunk
>   ...
> $ find gcc-trunk -name ".svn" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
> $ tar -cf - gcc-trunk | lzma  --best > gcc-trunk.tlz &
> $ tar -cf - gcc-trunk | bzip2 --best > gcc-trunk.tbz &
[...]

lzma (the file format) is obsolete and has been replaced by xz.

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