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Add generation of XZ-compressed tarballs#57
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Compress the tarballs with both gzip (for backward compatibility) and xz (to get better compression).
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The compression can be performed using |
provided by the `p7zip-full` package.
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Unless this PR gets merged shortly, it might make sense to integrate it in the Rust-based rust-installer rust-lang/rust#41569 |
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Looks right to me. Thanks @ranma42. Next step is to update the submodule in rust-lang/rust, and update the CI configuration to make 7zip available everywhere. |
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Compress the tarballs with both gzip (for backward compatibility) and
xz (to get better compression).
This is part of the preliminary work for rust-lang/rust#21724