Using xz by default for compression

Sun Jan 25 10:17:37 PST 2015

On Tuesday January 20 2015 13:20:03 René J.V. Bertin wrote:

To add another observation: the Qt 5.4 archive tarball shrinks by a bit over 26% when using xz instead of bzip2:

6591042 99M -rw-r--r--   1 root   admin 99M Jan 12 20:37 qt5-mac-devel-5.4.0_1+KDE.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2
8507590 73M -rw-r--r--   1 root   admin 73M Jan 25 19:16 qt5-mac-devel-5.4.0_2+KDE.darwin_13.x86_64.txz

R.