On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
Hello
LZMA tarballs are smaller and decompress faster than bzip2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/539671
They are supported since automake 1.10.1, released in January 2008. We currently require 1.10, which was released 3 months earlier. The automake dep change would only affect developers, since users of tarballs can use the provided configure script.
Is it OK to bump up the dependency to 1.10.1 and enable LZMA tarballs?
One quick check is with Hardy 8.04 which is a current LTS. It is supported on the desktop for just over a year, and on the server for three more years.
It only ships with tar 1.19, but it looks like LZMA support did not get in until 1.20.
Is it required to have the whole thing bumped up, or can't we just script an additional compress-and-publish step to have that as an option?