Hi Martin,

Sounds good. Are there any plans to support the xz compression for 
package source tarballs?

Thanks,

H.

On 9/8/23 06:44, Martin Maechler wrote:
> A quick notice for anyone who uses cron-like scripts to get
> R source tarballs from the ETH  R/daily/ s:
>
> I've finally switched to replace *.bz2 by *.xz which does save
> quite a bit of bandwidth.
>
> Currently, you can see the 2 day old *.bz2 (and their sizes) and
> compare with the new  *.xz one  (sorted newest first):
>
>    https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/?C=M;O=D
>
>
> Best,
> Martin
>
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