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

[Sam James]

Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:

> 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.
>

We don't currently support zstd everywhere on our end for distfiles so
fully replacing it would be a pain (so please keep xz as an option at
least).

Thanks!