On 09/09/2023 01:56, Hervé Pagès wrote:
Hi Martin,
Sounds good. Are there any plans to support the xz compression for
package source tarballs?
What makes you think it is not supported?
R CMD INSTALL happily installs .tar.xz files, and the name is not used
to detect compression so .tar.gz files could be bzip2- or xz-compressed.
Note that tarball compression is pretty much irrelevant where the
tarball contains large compressed files, for example .rda files or
vendor.tar.xz files of Rust sources. You have to arrange that the first
compression is the bast possible.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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