Re: [PATCH] maint: RFC: add lzip tarballs

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Eric,

> On Jan 11, 2017, at 20:13, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 01/11/2017 06:29 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> Hello Eric and all,
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> there are strong arguments for including .lzip
>>>> distributions, either in addition or in place of .xz:
>> 
>> I would ask at least to keep XZ and not switch solely to lzip.
> 
> I certainly agree with this point - it is too early to make lzip the
> sole distribution format.  The question is whether shipping BOTH xz and
> lzip, and letting people choose which format they prefer, is worth the
> extra effort.

I have no objections here (and to the rest of what you wrote).


Somewhat unrelated:

> I don't know if there is any (easy) way to count how many downloads of
> [...] But most likely that's a
> pipe dream, as GNU encourages the use of mirrors for getting tarballs,
> making it harder to centrally track what got downloaded where.

Actually with the mirrors it's easier:
The mirroring is done through a CGI script on a savannah machine. Once the 
transition to the new VMs is complete, I could provide some statistics.

(which reminds me, time to go back to savannah stuff...)

-assaf