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Re: curl release tarball file formats

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:51:52 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

>> Is it time to start providing a .7z version of the releases?
>
> Seems like an absolutely reasonable ask, the difference to .zip is pretty
> substantial.

Someone on Mastodon informed me that 7zip on Windows can already handle tar.xz
files.

Someone else mentioned that Windows itself has recently added native support
for tar.xz.

I think this might suggest that we can just stick to what we have...

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