On: Stop using gzip

[bhouston]

On typical source trees and mesh data xz is in the range of twice at good at compressing than gzip. That is very significant imo.

[barrkel → bhouston]

That's only really much good if you're in the business of archiving things like that. For most people, source trees are ad-hoc downloads for patch fixes, oddball platform compiles, etc. And then the universality of gzip is better than any marginal space savings from xz.