use_xz?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 8, 2009, at 14:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Does MacPorts have a use_xz variable? Some tarballs are now  
> distributed
> in both gz and xz compression format, and xz is significantly smaller
> than gz. For instance, for the coreutils 7.4:
>
>   .tar.gz   9.3 MB
>   .tar.xz   3.9 MB

No, I had not heard of xz until you mentioned it here. It can be  
added. But it looks like there is only an xz-devel port for version  
4.999.8beta; no stable version available. They also state they prefer  
users to build the latest version in git rather than use the beta.  
Perhaps we should wait until their development cycle slows down a  
bit, a stable version is released and an xz port is created before  
promoting the use of these archives? From their homepage it looks  
like the .xv format was only stabilized in version 4.999.7beta from  
December 2008, assuming they don't change their mind and change the  
format again.