Using xz by default for compression

[Daniel J. Luke]

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:17 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> 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

and how much more time does it take to compress/decompress?

and are you working on patches? ;-)

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