[PATCH] src-release.sh: Support zstd compression

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 04:44:59PM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 4:22 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
> > > This adds -z as option to src-release.sh which adds zstd to the list
> > > of compressors. This creates a tar.zst archive.
> >
> > I don't see that much value in this - very few people use .zst for
> > distfiles and it's not like we'll stop producing the others for
> > releases.
> >
> > But it's also cheap to do, so I won't bikeshed it further ;)
> 
> Is the goal to add .zst to https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ ? :)
> Perhaps for newer releases, .gz and .bz2 can be dropped. They are too
> large and obsolete by zstd...

My goal was to see if .zst could/should replace the .xz archives for
the snapshots on https://snapshots.sourceware.org/ which currently
only produce .xz archives.

It could maybe also be added as alternative/extra archive for the
actual releases?

It seemed good to at least have the option to produce archives this
way.

Cheers,

Mark