Source code in .tar.xz format?

From: Steven Winfield <Steven(dot)Winfield(at)cantabcapital(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Source code in .tar.xz format?
Date: 2018-10-12 10:34:15
Message-ID: E9FA92C2921F31408041863B74EE4C2001B1794375@CCPMAILDAG03.cantab.local
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Hi,

Have you considered making xz-compressed source tarballs available in file browser (https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source)?
The tarfile for v11rc1 compresses to 15.5MB (with -9) - nearly half the size of the gzip-compressed file that is currently on the browser.
Modern versions of tar will automatically decompress .tar.xz files with the usual "tar -xf <filename>" invocation.

Keep up the good work!

Steven.

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