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Re: xz-compressed tarballs?
From: |
Joel E. Denny |
Subject: |
Re: xz-compressed tarballs? |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:57:41 -0400 (EDT) |
User-agent: |
Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
Hi Jim,
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> you might prefer to drop bzip2 compression altogether and stick with
> just the most-common gzip and best-compressed xz
Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds like there's no reason to keep
bzip2.
> at least one (GNU cppi [*]) distributes only xz-compressed tarballs.
I'm a little skeptical of dropping gzip just yet.
I pushed the following patch to branch-2.5 and master.
>From abd189e8dc6ca848f038da12e4110d6192374b82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:38:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] build: create xz instead of bzip2 tarballs.
Suggested by Jim Meyering at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2011-06/msg00012.html>.
* README-hacking (Release Procedure): Update example.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Replace dist-bzip2 with
dist-xz.
---
ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
README-hacking | 2 +-
configure.ac | 2 +-
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8169127..dd0081d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2011-07-10 Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
+
+ build: create xz instead of bzip2 tarballs.
+ Suggested by Jim Meyering at
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2011-06/msg00012.html>.
+ * README-hacking (Release Procedure): Update example.
+ * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Replace dist-bzip2 with
+ dist-xz.
+
2011-05-29 Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
doc: clean up references to `Locations Overview'.
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index bd66a9b..e56e041 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ Here's a brief reminder of how to roll the tarballs and
upload them:
*** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz # This can take a while.
*** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.sig
*** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive.asc
-*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.bz2.
+*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.xz.
** Update Bison manual on www.gnu.org.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 98fded2..ec204e7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
# releases, we want to be able run make dist without being required to
# add a bogus NEWS entry. In that case, the version string
# automatically contains a dash, which we also let disable gnits.
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-bzip2]
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz]
m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [[-_]],
[gnu], [gnits]))
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])
--
1.7.0.4
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Joel E. Denny <=