[gnutls-help] gnutls 3.8.12

[Simon Josefsson]

Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio at gnu.org> writes:

>> Here are the XZ compressed sources:
>
> Have you considered using any other compressed format?

I think file size isn't as important as it used to be, and today it is
more important to think about other matters including
bootstrap/reproducible-build and supply-chain concerns.

I find the arguments to chose anything beyond gzip are rather weak
today.  I changed GNU InetUtils to gzip recently (from xz+gz).

Sometimes I have considered publishing non-compressed tarballs to not
have to deal with compression concerns, but I suspect that may be less
portable than compressed tarballs.  And I don't see any realistic
computing platform lacking gzip anyway.

Changing compression algorithm has a cost too.  I'm not convinced the
arguments for any particular compression method are strong enough to
warrant switching.

XZ is really slow compared to zstd which is what I would use in any
performance-critical situation.

This is a great bike shed :)

/Simon
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