[cairo-bugs] [Bug 47822] New: please provide xz compressed tarball

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47822

             Bug #: 47822
           Summary: please provide xz compressed tarball
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: cairo
           Version: 1.12.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: cworth at cworth.org
        ReportedBy: chithanh at gentoo.org
         QAContact: cairo-bugs at cairographics.org


Between cairo-1.10.2 and 1.12.0 the gzip compressed tarball grew from 23 MB to
60 MB (mostly caused by additions to the test/ directory).

Please provide an xz compressed tarball too. This would reduce download size
for users who build cairo from source by compensating for some of the size
increase.

Comparison between different compressors:
Uncompressed    89006080
gzip -9         63084508
bzip2 -9        61112978
xz -6 (default) 42046320
xz -7           36911776
xz -8           30381868
xz -9           29569496
squashfs-gzip   31555584 (due to many duplicate files)

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