Vincent van Ravesteijn <v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl> writes: > Anyway, I'd prefer not to bump the requirements without a necessity or > clear reason. It only might turn off users/possible developers and so > forth. As I'm not a Linux guy at all, I really don't care how the > tarballs are compressed, and if it's only needed for Pavel and > Juergen, I prefer not to bump it. > > However, It's up to you. I can work around it personally..
I agree with all these points, but I'd like to point out that the problem IMO is more in automake design. I tried to look at various putative workarounds, but I finally gave up on that. The only solution I found would be to rewrite the configure.ac script (from a configure.ac.in) in autogen.sh. This is slightly hackish, but doable. And it will be annoying every time the configure.ac.in file is modified. The important point for me is that indeed we would like to be able to support xz and lzma in distribution (the end result should as much as possible be more important than the developers problems, IMO). JMarc
